You should not trust strangers or accept dubious gifts. I learned this lesson when I unexpectedly became someone’s bride. As it turned out, the groom was from another world, and I was not the only bride. And now I have to survive the selection of brides for the future emperor of Kalahari. Why survive? Because the thirteenth bride from the Forbidden World is in the way of far too many people. And all I can rely on is my own luck and new friends—a crystal dragon and the rigats. And if I am lucky enough to find love too, I certainly will not complain.