Claudia is one of the last shifter-brides left at the Alma Venus Boarding School who have yet to be bought and claimed by a shapeshifter. Raised and educated to become the wife of a bear-shifter, she is painfully aware that the latest political changes are affecting how shifters choose their brides. She's afraid no Alpha will ever want her, and if she isn't married by the time she turns 25, she doesn't know what she'll do with her life. Karl Blackmane...