No More Unloving Fox, My Loyal Wolf

In a city where shifters are bred, trained and sold like luxury goods, bottom-tier Ivan spends everything he has on Scarlett—a white fox nobody else would take. A year later she opens his arm with her claws, then calls to ask why dinner isn't ready. At the Shifter Partner Center, the clerk swears trained shifters love their owners completely. So why doesn't his? And why does a wolf no one has ever chosen look at him like he's home?