Beastly Bargains

NOLA ANDERS is getting ready to graduate from high school. While she is worried about what might happen once the services are over and she tries to face life on her own, she doesn't realize that fate has something else entirely in store for her. A small space ship has landed and the occupant, a mysterious man all covered in black, has come looking for a replacement for the girl he brought to take her place. She gets a glimpse of him and then he disappears only to reappear at her graduation and tear her away while leaving another person to take her place.TRAVELER, the man who kidnapped her, takes her to another planet. All he will tell her is that she has been taken in a world change. Finally, she meets with a cursed animal that is responsible for all that is happening. He tells her in a tortured voice that he has asked for a test which will allow his fellow calts to be transformed back to humans if he succeeds. Up until this point Nola has been given no choice, but now she decides that she will help the calt. Will she be able to do all the things required of her even though many of them seem impossible?After the LADIES transform the calt to a man called JAFFE, they are ready to begin the challenges. (In fact, hey make her virginity an issue.) The challenges involve the king and queen of a race called the Faddens, a deka called MOWBRAY from another race. Things begin to happen that make it clear someone is trying to kill her. Then they go to a race of reptilian people, who are untruthful to them.The Traveler receives false information that make Nola almost unable to go on. But she has dreams that make her stronger. There are other secrets involving her and Traveler. They are taken before DEEMS HARRIDAN an outlaw in the badlands. Jaffe refuses to leave. Much magic. Enemies and many deceptions continue through many challenges.