In This Beast World Females Are Not Safe
In the Red Canopy, a female without a male is prey.
Odette learns this the night a brutal baboon beast finds her hiding in the mud. She survives by doing the one thing Thorn Hollow says females must never do.
She kills.
But a female who spills male blood is no longer easy to protect, trade, or tame. Cast into the wild with predators on her scent, Odette should have died before sunrise.
Then a tiger male saves her.
Powerful, dangerous, and impossible to ignore, Rauvan offers the one thing every female is taught to need: protection. But Odette has already learned that safety can become a cage, and she refuses to kneel just because the forest has teeth.
Her journey through the jungle will bring more males than she ever imagined, bonds she never planned, children she may not be ready to carry, and enemies who see her body as territory to claim.
Some beasts want mates.
Some want breeders.
Some want meat.
And Odette will have to become smarter than all of them if she wants to survive.