Peony then contracts the plague and is taken away. While in the junkyard looking for a new mag belt for Adri's hover, Cinder, Iko and Peony discover an old car, which Cinder plans to take home and repair. Prince Kai's father, Emperor Rikan, is currently sick with Letumosis, otherwise known as Blue Fever, a plague currently terrorizing Earth with no known survivors. After Kai leaves, the market is evacuated as a baker by the name of Chang Sacha has been infected with the plague Letumosis.

While working, she meets Prince Kai of the Eastern Commonwealth who asks her to fix his android, Nainsi. Cinder owns a booth in the market place where she works as a mechanic with the family's android, Iko. Linh Cinder is a cyborg living in New Beijing, 126 years after World War IV, with her stepmother, Linh Adri, and her two stepsisters, Pearl & Peony. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, developing a forbidden attraction.

She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s letumosis. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. From space, ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move.

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing.

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