Carmen and Aldous’ Story . . .
Carmen Boaz needs funding for Hope House, a children’s group home, or it will close down. She can’t claim her own inheritance until she is either 35 or married, which means she only has one of those choices she can make happen. Aldous Von Drago, a dragon shifter billionaire who needs to produce an heir is also left with limited choices. So each of them chooses to sign up with “Brides for Beasts” to arrange a marriage. Neither of them is aware that they had met previously, and both had been attracted to the other. But when she is walked toward the altar on their wedding day by Councilman Greyson, administrator of the arranged marriage program, Carmen feels herself react the same way she did when she had met a gorgeous man around Christmas that she was still fantasizing over. He turns toward her and both are stunned. It really is him! And she has never been happier.
But when Aldous takes her up to the roof to show her what he is, will she accept him and allow him to claim her with his mark? Or will she run from the rooftop before she meets his dragon as he strips off his clothing to shift and she fears this is the first stage of the illness her mother succumbed to? She thought her husband’s eyes looked almost reptilian and she imagined green scales. She knew it was time to pack up and leave everything behind because she will not burden him with her mental breakdown, the same delusions and hallucinations as her mother suffered. Living as a child with her mother like that was a nightmare for her and she would not put her husband through it as her condition would worsen. Determined, will he get to her in time to explain? Or is their chance for happiness over?