While I enjoyed the other novellas in this series, I didn't enjoy this one as much. The relationship between Marlee and Carter was not well filled out and the novella actually went much farther than I expected. While this is listed as 2.6 it goes beyond the end of the next book. I guess the author tried to only work with the things we already expected, that America becomes Maxon's bride and that the king dies, but it was still a bit of a shock to read them out of order.