Author: Nina Varela
Published: October 2019
Pages: 464
When a powerful queen was unable to bear children, her most seasoned alchemists intervened, inventing Automaes, humanoid artificial intelligences with the potential to un-complicate reproduction. But their technology was hijacked in the name of human pleasure. Not content to be the playthings of the royals, the Automaes revolted against their enslavers, reversing conquered and conqueror in the War of Kinds. The kingdom of Rabu is dangerous for its lingering humans, who held onto few rights in the now Automae-prevailing commonwealth. After Ayla—a girl without family or prospects following the civil uprising—saves Lady Crier’s life—the Automae daughter of King Hesod and recipient of his scepter when the time comes—she is compensated with a position as her personal handmaiden. Ayla agrees ungraciously and for reasons of her own, and those are to assassinate the Queen to be. But things go un-accordingly when Ayla thinks her employer nothing like the heartless machine she presumed her to be, and Lady Crier feels herself pulled more towards the human than to her own betrothed, Scyre Kinok.
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