Princess Leilany Canada Schreave has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon - and they lived "happily ever after". Leilany has always found their fairy-tale story repulsive and disappointing, and she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she'd never marry because marriage is overrated lol. But a princess's life is never entirely her own, and Leilany can't escape her very own Selection-no matter how fervently she protests. Leilany doesn't expect her story to end happily. But as the competition begins, Leilany slowly realizes that she doesn't need romance to feel fulfilled, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her... and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.