"Good to have you back home, Randall," he said as he buckled the seatbelt. "It's boring here without you." He smirked as he saw Mom and Dad standing on the front porch of the sprawling ranch-style home under the wide overhang of the roof. The house was connected underground to the houses surrounding it, and those passages contained additional storage and other rooms. "You sure kicked up a hornet's nest with your phone call."

"It can't be helped, I need Dad's help." Brent and Patricia had led the Sulphur River Pack, a strong and loving group of nearly a hundred people, for the past six decades and were still going...