Chapter One

16 years before Isabella Reyes' Claiming, Vivian Aramore faces the same ceremony, but with a different attitude. She believes with all her heart that her boyfriend Brenden will claim her and they will live happily ever after--growing up in the Family District, that's all she knows to exist: love and happiness. However, when Brenden betrays her, Vivian is faced with the unthinkable--the oppressive Lower District. Not only will she be unpaid, not cared for, and lonely, she will be forced to carry out the most desperate need of Bayfell: the need for reproduction.