WILD HEART • COMMANDER LEXA [1]

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."