in which the tale of Erica Parker and Bellamy Blake is told, long before the war on Earth. "It wasn't you I was scared of, really. It was- I don't know how to describe it. I was more scared of... you not wanting to be around me anymore. I was scared of my feelings for you, and maybe that you wouldn't feel the same and you'd leave. I was scared of scaring you." "You could never scare me, Bellamy."

LUXURY. - "What if I want to marry someone I love? Someone I care about, someone who will make me happy?" He placed his hand over hers. "Anna, I want to be happy." "That's a luxury we royals will never have." in which Princess Annalise Stuart gains more than she bargained for during her stay at French Court, including love, loss and everything in between.

in which Erica Parker escapes Mount Weather, and lands right in the middle of a war between peoples, finding romance along the way. "Love is not weakness, Lexa. Love is strength. The people you love give you the power to succeed, to protect them when they need it. When you stop caring, that's when you have nothing to fight for. That's when you are weak." "That is when you put the people you care about in danger, when your enemies see them as something they can use to get to you. That's when the pain never goes away. The dead are gone, Erica. The living are hungry."