What if?

What if the plane you were on was thrown fifty years into the future, where war and plague had reduced the world to the Wild West? What if the people that survived that catastrophe had supernatural gifts hidden in their genes? Imagine that the plague had eliminated 90% of all females in the world, and the ones that remained were seen as precious commodities to be protected and parceled out to the men who would be most likely to re-populate the world with strong healthy offspring. Suppose you were offered as the prize to a dozen men who would fight for the right to marry you. How would you react to the werewolf who won you?

Those are the questions that Carla Z, a rising country music singer, has to face when the plane taking her to her next show crashes in the middle of what had been the state of Nebraska. Cell phones, lap tops and the plane radio are dead, so the uninjured survivors pair up and walk to find aid for the wounded and dying. It's unbelievable but undeniable that the world she knew in 2014 was gone along with most of its technology. The prairie rolls on forever, empty except for an occassional abandoned farmhouse and broken crumbling towns with no inhabitants. When she and her partner finally find people in a small farming community that doesn't have phones or televisions they are taken by wagon to a nearby town where they are sold to a man who sets up a Bride Fight. Men come from all over town to pay to enter the fight that will decide which man will marry which woman. Carla is won by a man named Taye Wolfe, the leader of a group who lives just north of town. Taye is the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, and he is fascinated by the woman his wolf chose as his mate. Her scent is arousing and comforting at the same time. Now he just has to convince her that he really has fallen in love at first sniff.