The State of Duran never believed in the Forerunners and disliked the formation of the Covenant. However, their defiance was going to come around and hit them hard somehow. Now a member of the Covenant, Katerina is working hard to keep her remaining family alive. Little did she know, she would find an unlikely friend in a certain Spartan.

All my life I was destined to steal the hearts of many. As an orphan whose adoptive parents didn't even want her, I was off to a rocky start. How was I, a tribute, to win over the Capitol? To be the Capitol's darling? No one wanted me before, who was to say this would be any different? But yet somehow I ransomed their hearts. All their hearts. But I only wanted two. My parents.