Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

by Marissa Meyer

“It’s not like wires are contagious,” Cinder muttered to her empty booth.

She was met with startled copper-brown eyes and black hair that hung past his ears and lips that every girl in the country had admired a thousand times.

After all, they’d found traces of the child’s flesh in the ashes.

Maybe shes a cyborg

“I’m sure I’ll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”

In her nightmare, the fire always seemed to be hottest beneath her neck, the heat trickling down her spine. The unrelenting pain, like a hot coal had gotten beneath her skin.

“I found your pretty new mechanic down in the lobby,

“Miss Linh, from your blood samples I have deduced that you are, in fact, Lunar.”

Cinder twisted up her lips. “Do you think it could have a virus?” “Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai’s uncanny hotness.”

“Do you intend to always let your adviser make your decisions for you?” “No,” said Kai, allowing a cold smile. “Eventually, I’ll have an empress for that.”

But if there was one thing she knew from years as a mechanic, it was that some stains never came out.