Clarke Griffin's parents both get deployed and they send her to Arcadia Academy. Arcadia Academy is a military school preparing its students for any combat situation. Once there Clarke's life drastically changes. She becomes friends with her new unit-mates and starts to develop a crush on her unit lead Lexa. Lexa is quiet, distant, and sometimes even cold, but her moments of caring and warmth catch Clarke's eyes and she can't quite shake the feeling that there might be something more between them.