Complete rough draft, publishing [as is] to Wattpad for Beta reading purposes and audience approval.* Ranked: #3 in Paranormal-Fantasy Avendale, Mississippi is a small town; no one locks their doors, the crime rates are practically nonexistent. Those statistics are about to skyrocket. Local authorities found June Lee Martins body in the woods slayed by a presumed wild animal - a bobcat, perhaps. The news of Libby McGraw's disappearance from her front yard is all anyone can talk about, an eleven-year-old girl with down syndrome wandering from her lawn but according to Libby's mother, she wasn't the child who would run away and she would go nowhere with a stranger. A chilling course of events that Laura isn't certain have anything to do with a wild animal attack. Frightening town happenings aside, Laura's life is a mess of controlled chaos no matter how much she thinks of herself as being a free spirit. She's closed her heart to love after a terrible relationship came to its inevitable end and her opinion of men has colored her lonely heart, but when Laura meets Jesse Bradford, things quickly change. A small town, two murders, and that isn't the worst of it. There is a wild animal on the loose and Laura is the newest member of the pack, but not everything is as it seems. Laura's been bitten by a werewolf, but that isn't the monster that is killing towns people and before someone else can die, Laura and Jesse have to come together to figure out who it is in this new adult paranormal thriller.