Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson

by Patricia Briggs

People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.

Bran looked considerably less dangerous than Charles—the huge, blank-faced man who stood alertly beside him. Not for the first time, Asil thought that it had served Bran well to have a son who oozed threat like a Twinkie oozed plasticky cream filling. Everyone looked at Bran’s son Charles and forgot who the most dangerous person was.