Dylan Royal aimed the all-terrain vehicle toward the ranch and got the machine going at full speed, the pictures on his phone adding weight to the device in his pocket. Dwayne, the owner of Grape Seed Ranch where Dylan worked, wouldn’t be happy. Calls would have to be made. After all, they were losing cattle to the coyotes that had been plaguing the ranch for over a year now. A downed cow here and there was a normal loss, but the pictures Dylan had on his phone marked the hundredth cow they’d lost in the past two months alone. “Not just coyotes,” he muttered to himself, his bones vibrating from the bumpy ground as the ATV sped toward home. Home. What a funny word for Dylan. He wasn’t sure if Grape Seed Falls the town or Grape Seed Ranch was really home. But both of his brothers were her

