“I’m a ‘bride’, but…I don’t want to be a wife.”
A world where people are forcibly arranged into pairs, known as ‘families’. Regardless of sex or gender, there are two categories: ‘husbands’, those who enter rut, and ‘wives’, those who enter heat.
Timid schoolgirl Melissa Brideman is a ‘bride’, as of yet unassigned to a partner. Recently reunited with her older brother, she must navigate her way through bittersweet adolescence and decide, for herself, whether she has a say in her own future match.
