From debut author Nina Varela comes a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls—one human, one Made—whose romance could spark a revolution.

After the War of Kinds devastated the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae—originally designed as playthings for royals—seized their owners' estates and subjugated the human race.

Ayla, a human servant climbing the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, is driven by a singular goal: avenging her family's death by killing the sovereign's daughter, Lady Crier.

Crier 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.

Now, 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.