"Why'd you do that, Ella?" "I had to." "You don't have to do anything. Isn't that what you always say? You always have a choice, Ella. Tell me why you chose that one." "I chose that one because it was the right thing to do." This is a story about a girl who never should have been born. It is a story about an elegant charming boy with dark haunted eyes, a thief who lived on the streets. It is a story about friendship and death, of war, and love, and genius. It is a story about a princess's fight for her birthright to the throne. It is the story of Elaera Ashalynn Valaris.