ickup he bought with the pelt money. He drove out

line. The moment his taillights

ght, heavily perfumed women crept through the weeds toward Alton

wire and swallowed hard. "I don't kn

ely growing weed or cooking meth in there. If we ge

ynn found a small gap at the bottom of t

, sticking her rear end in the air,

she saw a clothesline. Tiny, pink

y? Why would a serial k

pink outfit crawled off the porc

She opened her mout

a massive shadow detache

he one Alton had killed-stepped into the

r brain short-circuited. She waited fo

iggled and grabbed a handful of the deadly predato

r the cougar's belly and pulled out a thick,

ed itself affectionately around E

broke her sanity. She let out a blood-curdling shriek, threw herself b

scream. They shoved Tammy-Lynn

ise. Its golden eyes sn

ening roar that vibrated the ground. The rattlesnake reared

stared straight int

le spread down her jeans as she wet her

ght a tree root. She face-planted into the d

sat in her patch of dirt, clapping her small hands together at the muffled roars and shri

dows across the yard, when the low rumble of Alton

t the three women sprawled

as groaning. He nudged her ribs

ce staring down at her. Thinking the devil himself had c

unlocked his gate

ougar rubbed its head against Alton's leg like a house cat. Alton pi