What the Hunt Requires
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Make sure you read *The Stag Belt: Prologue of Crimes and Passion* first!
Welcome to the Stag Belt where you will learn what the Hunt Requires.
As the Reaping looms and alliances threaten to fracture, Eden is faced with an impossible truth: peace will demand a body. And hers is the most valuable one left to give.
So she chooses it.
Not because she is obedient.
Not because she believes in the system.
But because she knows what happens when no one steps forward.
In the Stag Belt, sacrifice is glorified, passion is policed, and survival is never free. Eden's choice will change everything-for her family, her people, and the worlds watching her walk willingly into a fate she understands far better than anyone else ever will.
What the Hunt Requires is a dark, emotionally intimate sci-fi romance about duty, loss, and the devastating clarity of choosing others over yourself-and becoming something powerful in the process.
Born on Station 401, Eden Rook was raised on obedience, order, and sacrifice. When the colony fell, her parents struck a deal to ensure humanity's survival-offering their daughter to the Zephyrenian Houses as a Tdori, a surrogate chosen to bear the heirs of the ruling stags.
Now, she's being prepared for the Reaping, a ceremony where females are bound to their Zephyrenian matches.
Eden finds herself trapped between two stags whose rivalry could ignite a war...and whose bond could destroy her.
As the Great Hunt approaches, and whispers of rebellion rise from the underbelly of the Hive, Eden must choose between submission and defiance-between the future her parents sold her for, and the freedom she's willing to fight for.
Power. Passion. Betrayal.
On Zephyros, nothing is freely given-and every choice demands a sacrifice.
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