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    The Night Shift
    The Night Shift
    The Night Shift
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    The Night Shift

    By Anna Reith

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    Animal Control Officer Rebecah Pearsall hates working the night shift. As a full moon rises over Seattle, there are even more crazy people than usual roaming the streets, and Becah really doesn't need any more complications. But an encounter behind the local pizzeria brings her into contact with the strangest dog she's ever seen - and Gabe, who really isn't your average black-leather-clad elf....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrith Books
    Release dateMay 15, 2012
    ISBN9781907623264
    The Night Shift
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    Anna Reith

    Anna Reith lives behind a keyboard in the far south west of England. On the very rare occasions she is not writing, Anna enjoys taking long, muddy walks with her dogs, dabbling in her herb garden, and falling off horses. Not all at the same time, obviously.

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      The Night Shift - Anna Reith

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      The Night Shift by Anna Reith

      © 2016 by Anna Reith. All rights reserved. www.annareith.co.uk

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      ISBN: 978-1-907623-26-4

      Cover design by Anna Reith © Frith Books 2016

      Original photography by Christopher Campbell

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      Anna Reith

      Rebecah Pearsall loathed the night shift. For one thing, it brought all the crazies out of the woodwork. Not two weeks ago, she’d had to deal with a guy who swore he was a werewolf. At first he’d seemed harmless enough, just tagged around after her making weird snuffling noises and asking if she had any lady dogs in the back of the van… but then the clouds had parted, the moonlight spilled over West Barrett Street, and Mr. Werewolf went totally crazy. He’d tried to simultaneously hump her leg and bite her throat and, in the end, Rebecah had been forced to hit him in the head with her flashlight.

      She hated to do that to street people; even with the crazy ones it still left a bad taste in her mouth. And it wasn’t as if the moon had even been properly full that night. She’d wondered, for a while, what would have happened if it had been… which was why Rebecah didn’t like the night shift. It changed the way you thought.

      Hard to believe she couldn’t carry a Taser or a gun, either. Not even a nightstick. Her tough nylon jacket, with its faux sheepskin collar, and her heavy duty—though decidedly unflattering—black pants gave her the appearance of a cop, but afforded her neither the powers nor the perks. A shame, given that a lot of her job involved confrontation with hostile and often unpleasant members of the public; people who didn’t see why their dogs barking incessantly at four a.m. caused a problem, or why some woman from Animal Control should dare to come by and suggest they fed the damn thing before it got hungry enough to howl. Then there were the packs of kids who roamed around by the cemetery. Sick, twisted little creeps who usually ran away when Rebecah pulled up in her panel van and left whatever poor creature they’d been flame-grilling or stoning to her mercies but, one of these days—so her mother kept saying—one of the weirdoes would turn on her with a knife.

      Rebecah understood the dangers of her job. She just didn’t think about them; it made it easier to get through it that way. Besides, she had her two-way radio and a good relationship with the beat cops who often had to call her in to assist with corralling a dangerous dog or to identify some mysterious animal bite.

      Despite all the blackness and the evil she saw, Rebecah still felt at home on her patrol. As if what she did mattered. Some little comfort she could offer, some kind of relief to

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