Blue Moon Rising (The Patroness) - Plot & Excerpts
And you are?” he held out his hand. I leaned back, crossing my arms over my chest, and raised an eyebrow. I didn’t believe a word he’d said. He sighed. “Believe me.” Then he took out his wallet and showed me his ID. “I’m Jean Chastel. Jean Chastel’s great-, great-, whatever, -son.” Wow, this evening was just getting weirder and weirder. Seemed my oh-so-lucky day turned into an oh-so-lucky night. I hated the higher powers. The old Jean Chastel had been a local farmer and inn-keeper in the south of France and had gotten very famous when he supposedly killed the legendary Bête du Gévaudan in 1767. That name had been given to a man-eating, wolf-like creature terrorizing the former province of Gévaudan for three years. In 1765, a year after the first official victim had been killed, King Louis XV finally took a personal interest in the attacks. He sent out professional wolf hunters to get a hold of the situation, promising a fine reward, of course.
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