All based off of the mentions of "An Imperial Affliction" in "The Fault in Our Stars". This is MY personal interpretation of John Green's description of "An Imperial Affliction". Hopefully my work is as good as read as his, and it's worry if Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters's approval:)

"Those eyes... Those dark blue eyes that haunted my whole existence, finally came to shred it into million pieces..." A war separated them. Another war will unite them back. Irene, among other women, is kept hostage for retaliation in a secluded building during the darkest years of the Greek History. When she manages to come to terms with the new hard life, the arrival of an order of soldiers brings her world upside down. Those eyes she was dreaming of, come to their life in the most cruel and unexpected way. What happens when the dream becomes a nightmare? What happens when the friend becomes the enemy? 2014, All Rights Reserved

"Reign means kingdom, reign means power, reign means sacrificing what you love most. Politics, intrigues, love. It's not what you think it is. It's more". Alexander V, bachelor and contemporary prince of Redmond, enjoys his lifestyle rather than preparing for the throne. But after a referendum, Rose, a simple young woman, is obliged to rule with him. The tension between them it's obvious from the very beginning. How will she be accepted at the court? Who will rule at the end? And what dark secrets will change everything between them? Rate and comment, please!

-1997- Willow Monroe and Kennedy Danes have been best friends since drawings were assignments in school. They've been joined at the hip for years. They love riding bikes together, smiling for real, and laughing, even at the wrong times. Once their senior year of high school comes around, Kennedy becomes terminally ill. Though he has plans that don't involve sadness, he still needs to find a way to tell Willow he only has six more months to live. Willow and Kennedy can never say the word 'goodbye'. They have this agreement to say Hello up until their last time spent together. The sixteenth of August in the year of 1997 is when Willow and Kennedy say Hello for the last time. -2006- Nine years later finds Willow in the smallest hospital of Chicago, working as a registered nurse. There she meets Wyatt Blanquette, a curmudgeonly patient with untapped wisdom and heart, beneath a stony exterior. When they agree to be nice to each other instead of abundantly rude, Wyatt eventually shows the fact that he sees a light in Willow that cannot burn out. Everything changes once Wyatt reveals to Willow his heart-wrenching secret. Willow's thoughts bicker and she has to determine whether she should suppress the feelings she's afraid of reliving, or to let them be seen - with her heart wide open. #10 in General Fiction | hit the featured list