Thinning the Herd
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Rush of Wings and The Maker’s Song series, a humorous, action-packed urban fantasy about a werewolf pack and an animal control officer in way over his head!
Someone is picking off fortune tellers and hippies in Oregon, snatching them out of their Birkenstocks mid-stride. And when the legend himself, Hal Rupert, Animal Control Officer, gets a whiff of the mystery, he knows he’s the man to solve it. In between proudly wrangling out-of-control cats and dogs, he’s noticed a peculiar uptick in another sort of animal…werewolves.
Hal infiltrates the country fair to investigate the disappearance of the flower children. But his real priority is protecting the love of his life, Desdemona Cohen, whose long purple tresses and black-glossed lips captured his heart the moment he first saw her standing behind the register at Hot Topic. Desdemona may have nicknamed Hal “Creep,” but he’s determined to win her heart. And, you know, save everyone else, too.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Absurd situations starring a bumbler with delusions of adequacy make for a far-fetched, yet uproariously funny urban fantasy in Phoenix's vision of Eugene, Ore. Hal Rupert is, ostensibly, an animal control officer. Yet that isn't all he does. He sees it as his sworn duty to protect the good people of Oregon from the rogue were-creatures that walk among them. He is quite content to handle drunk lycans on his own, until hippies and fortune tellers begin disappearing at an alarming rate, and Desdemona who's not so much his love interest as the woman he's outright stalking might be next. Gathering what few friends he has, Hal is forced to confront the darkest of nightmares, with only his companions and a catch pole. The predicaments encountered by the heroic band range from giggle inducing to flat-out bananas. Hal's delusional charm has a surprising poignancy, which makes this utterly ludicrous story all the more enjoyable.
