The Phantom Butcher (Shadow Crawlers Book 1)
He was used to extreme weather conditions that cold or heat didn’t bother him anymore.
It had recently rained and the rich, fertile scent of earth held no appeal for him. He’d chosen the moonless night for only one purpose. The cabin belonged to a werewolf named Asher Vaughan, the most feared Alpha in the town, and the creature waited patiently for the right moment to attack.
The merry chirps of the crickets and the mating calls of the frogs annoyed the hell out of him, testing his mostly non-existent patience.
Long, clawed fingers tapped rhythmically on the tree trunk. Its fangs elongated as the soft moans drifted off from the cabin—a natural reaction to such things. It scrunched its nose a