u003cpu003eFrom debut author Nina Varela comes the first book in a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls--one human, one Made--whose romance could be the beginning of a revolution.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003ePerfect for fans of Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Curse as well as Game of Thrones and Westworld.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eAfter the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners' estates and bent the human race to their will.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eNow Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging her family's death...by killing the sovereign's daughter, Lady Crier. u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eCrier was Made to be beautiful, flawless, and to carry on her father's legacy. But that was before her betrothal to the enigmatic Scyre Kinok, before she discovered her father isn't the benevolent king she once admired, and most importantly, before she met Ayla.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eNow, with growing human unrest across the land, pressures from a foreign queen, and an evil new leader on the rise, Crier and Ayla find there may be only one path to love: war.u003c/pu003e
