“Everybody sit down and be quiet,” she ordered. Sinatra the beagle was already howling at the front door. Cleo the cat tried her damnedest to act as a furry tripwire on the creaky staircase but was chased off by Brutus the bulldog and ChiChi the chihuahua mix. She slapped on lights as she made her way downstairs. Layla blindly stumbled out of bed, sending a cascade of four-legged friends to the floor. The next round of thumping triggered a tentative boof from the foot of her bed, followed by a mournful howl originating in the hallway. She’d just gotten off an extra-long shift at midnight and dragged her ass straight to bed with the intent to sleep as long as the dogs’ bladders would allow. Levar Burton’s soothing sleep story voice disappeared from her ears as she shoved the Bluetooth eye mask up her forehead. There was the occasional astrological apocalypse or stink-bombing gone wrong. Blue Moon was a small, sleepy sort of town. In Deputy Layla Gunnarson’s experience, pounding on her front door after midnight was never a good thing. If you’re new to the Blue Moon series, Lucy highly recommends you give the hippie, dippy, nosy town a read! ( Very intense author note: DO NOT READ THE PREQUEL FIRST.
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