Golden Delicious (Jane Yellowrock, #4.2)

(In the anthology An Apple for the Creature)

A tale from the Jane Yellowrock universe.
Rick LaFleur, former New Orleans undercover cop, now a black were-leopard stuck in human form, is at the PsyLED academy, training to become a special agent of the government agency that would, at one time, have preferred him to be dead, on a slab, and under autopsy. When he discovers that students have gone missing, he and his team go on the hunt to find out why.