I am Leila Vilanta, an analyst of the Zvargh Security Service. Usually I handle routine matters in the server room of the office. I have a fiancé approved by the planetary medical laboratory—someone I will likely have to marry, since our species is quite small. But one day everything changes when my boss offers a field assignment on a planet called Lark. Just one full look full of lust from the pack leader made my heart beat faster. And they had warned me that larks are savages.