Can a girl who spent her life hiding in the dark save a race of angelic cyborgs who have forgotten what it means to be human?

Kaidin hasn't seen the sky in fourteen years. Her mother sealed her in a cave at six to keep her from the Pleasure Houses — and raised her on stories, darkness, and one warning: the world is not good, or nice, or safe.

Her mother was right.

On Thaera, boys are taken at seven. Their parents are told it's school. It's not. Their brains are cut from their skulls and locked inside synthetic warrior shells — and if those shells ever start to feel something human again, the state destroys them.

Shard has spent decades hiding behind arrogance. Smoke has spent fifty years hoping something will finally kill him. Ice prided himself on feeling nothing — until the scent of a half-starved girl dragged from a raptor's nest cracked something open he can't seal up again.

She's a Protector. The one thing the Oligarchy has spent generations rooting out like weeds — because a woman who can make machines fertile is a woman who can make machines free.

Now she's been paraded before hundreds of battle-crazed warriors as a Prize, publicly stripped and discarded as imperfect — and she's still the most dangerous thing on the planet.

Three men remembering how to feel. One woman learning the world her mother feared. And a rebellion that needs to steal five thousand children before the state breaks them into parts.

Note: Contains mature, potentially triggering content set within a dystopian regime.

Romance where love is the hardest choice — and the most necessary one.

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