Contract Bound [Rewriting]

Beasts emerged from the forest's depths long ago and preyed on humanity. As despair gripped the world, beings from the fae supernatural realm rose from the shadows and defeated the monsters. In gratitude, humans vowed not to interfere when a supernatural selected a mate, a tradition honored for generations.

All that changes as the bodies of those chosen in the past months pile up.

On Belinda's twentieth birthday, a crescent moon appears on her forehead, signaling to everyone in the town that she has been chosen. Fear of meeting the same demise as the others propels her to reject the vampire Fane and sign a contract that will forever change her mundane life.