Aimee Teegarden: 'The Selection' Star!

Congrats, Aimee Teegarden!

The 22-year-old actress has signed on the dotted line to star in a television series based on the upcoming book by Kiera Cass, “The Selection,” TVLine reports.

The drama series is an epic romance set 300 years in the future which centers on a poor young woman, America Singer (Teegarden) who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads.

The book will hit shelves on April 24th from HarperTeen.

As for the pilot, The Vampire Diaries‘ Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain are set to write and produce.