Night of the Wolf — James Conway

Quintin Barkley is a magazine photo reporter, and he gets the assignment from Environment Magazine to go to the small backwoods village of Thistle Hollow, Tennessee where a pack of exotic red wolves have been spotted so he could do a series of photo articles on them. Stuck in an unhappy relationship, Quintin leaves his relationship behind, but takes his dog with him, and travels to Thistle Hollow where he meets a typical series of odd characters. After pulling into Thistle Hollow he meets Aunt Bel who runs the local country store and who is the town's matriarch. She gives Quintin the grand tour of the town were he meets the sensual and seductive country beauty, the redheaded Serena, the local sin eater Esco Fitts, the fanatical Reverend Poke, and the only local youth, the scared Tommy Lee. And there is the strange Lillie who seems to have gotten pregnant about the same time the last reporter was visiting Thistle Hollow, and who fell 'mysteriously' to his death.