In a world of vicious beasts, if you are not a predator, you are prey.  Aurelia Aquinas is a discarded girl. Forced to live a life of isolation, she is forbidden to speak of her powers and forbidden to find her soul-bound mates. She awaits the day she can escape to a human college and live a life free and away from her father and the beasts that might come after her. But when she is called to heal and injured beast, locked away in a dungeon, the course of her life changes forever.  This is book 0.5 (prequel novella) in Her Vicious Beasts, a 5 book contemporary fantasy spicy shifter WhyChoose series with a lot of plot and a lot of heart. It is best suited to readers 18+.  Tropes: Found family, fated mates, shifters, prison/captivity