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The Selection · Book 7

The Guard

by Kiera Cass
Published
1 January 2014
Pages
120
ISBN-13
9780007579341
Type
novella
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About this book

The Guard is a companion novella in Kiera Cass's The Selection series, published in 2014 and retelling events from a supporting character's viewpoint rather than America Singer's own -- one of four such novellas (with The Prince, The Queen and The Favorite) that fill in the wider cast's side stories.

Key facts about The Guard

Kiera Cass wrote The Guard, a novella on our list. It has been out since 2014. The book has 120 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007579341 to find the main one.

The Guard is book 7 of 10 in The Selection series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with The Selection (2012). The Crown is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 3 May 2016.

Additionally, Kiera Cass writes The Betrothed as a separate series. Those series sit on our romance shelf. Meanwhile, A Thousand Heartbeats is the latest published Kiera Cass book on file, from 29 November 2022.

About Kiera Cass

Kiera Cass is an American young adult author best known for The Selection series, a dystopian romance following America Singer, a young woman competing among 35 girls for the hand of a prince in a caste-stratified future America, structured with the competitive premise deliberately echoing reality dating shows. See every Kiera Cass book in order.

Its place in The Selection

The Guard is book 7 in the The Selection series. It follows The Prince. It is followed by The Queen. See the full The Selection reading order.

In the caste-stratified kingdom of Illea, a televised competition called the Selection picks thirty-five girls to compete for Prince Maxon's hand in marriage, offering the lowest-caste contestants a life-changing shot at royalty. America Singer enters mostly to help her struggling family and to escape heartbreak over a boy she isn't allowed to marry — she has no interest in winning, which is exactly what makes her stand out to Maxon. What follows is part reality-TV competition, part rebellion story, as America…

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