All this time, she's seen firsthand how Levana's glamour has turned her into a heartless tyrant. Winter, Queen Levana's stepdaughter, has lived her entire life in Artemisia Palace and has been raised by her stepmother. All the while, the plague has begun to mutate and even Lunars are not safe. As complications arise and the crew is separated, they must do everything they can to prevent a royal wedding which would only put Earth into Queen Levana's hands. Living alone on a satellite and harbouring an enormous crush on Carswell Thorne, she secretly works to sabotage the wicked Lunar queen, and eventually, Cress teams up with Cinder and becomes entangled in her plot to save Earth. They later join Cinder & Thorne upon the Rampion.Ĭrescent Moon, or Cress Darnel, is an imprisoned shell working with Sybil to aid Lunar ships. She seeks help from a man named Ze'ev Kesly, a streetfigher who helps Scarlet find her lost grandmother. Meanwhile Scarlet, an 18-year old girl, hears that her grandmother has disappeared 3 weeks ago with her missing case having closed. Winner of Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles CoverĬinder meets Carswell Thorne who both escape prison using his stolen ship, the Rampion.

Erland tells her that she is the missing princess and that Levena is her Aunt, meaning Cinder is the true Queen of Luna. Levana exposes her being cyborg & Lunar, and orders Kai to imprison her. As the prince & mechanic grow closer, reality sets in. One day, crown Prince Kaito, brought his android, Nainsi, for her to fix, and while he tried to make light of the subject, it became apparent that it was a serious matter.

Her unique makeup, combined with her adoptive father's invention, allowed her to become the best mechanic in New Beijing at the tender age of sixteen. She lives with her adoptive mother, Adri, and two stepsisters, Pearl & Peony, the latter of the two dying of Letumosis. The series revolves around Cinder, a lunar cyborg working as a mechanic in New Beijing. In a universe and galaxy filled with various species and man-made creatures, tensions have risen between Earth and it's former colony, the moon, as a deadly virus ravages the planet. Each of the four main books contains a modernized and science fictonal twist on a classic fairy tale, primarily Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Snow White.

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