The Queen & The Favorite

Two novellas from the world of the Selection series, collected in print for the first time. Each one goes back to a character readers meet in the main books and tells part of her story that the series left out.

In The Queen, a girl arrives at the palace to compete for the hand of a prince, years before America Singer's story begins. She is Amberly, the future mother of Prince Maxon, and the novella follows her through the Selection that makes her queen.

The Favorite turns to Marlee Tames, who comes to the palace to win Prince Maxon's heart. Her own heart has other plans. The novella goes behind the scenes of her life with Carter, starting on the night their secret is discovered.

It runs on through to the events at the end of The One, so it sits alongside the main trilogy rather than ahead of it. Each novella is a short, self-contained look at a love story the series only glimpsed.