Every year a thousand young females are offered to the tribes of Lacertine as sacrifices for The Mating Ritual. These human girls become the life-long mates of the Usari, Sabre, or Lycan warriors who win their honor during battle on the sacred blue sands of The Breeding Lands. It's on these blue sands that the new mates consummate their union...merely minutes after selection. The humans have made a deal with the shifter tribes - in exchange for protection and peace, they must provide women to bear offspring to the Usari Ravagers of the western mountains, the Lycan Moonlords of the northern forests, and the Sabre Prides of the southern lowlands...Everything is about to change as three young women, Mia, Leila, and Violet are selected for mating. Each woman will play a vital role in the balance of power between the three tribes, the humans, and the ominous exiled Dragon Lords. As they struggle to adapt to their new lives, as the mates and concubines of fierce and savage shifter warriors, the girls realize that their destinies are intertwined...A shifter tribe is planning a treacherous uprising. A war is coming - but will one of the girls give birth to a child that may one day change the fate of the world?