Humans and androids crowd, the raucous streets of new Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that earths fate hinges on one girl… 16-year-old Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second class citizen with a mysterious past and is reviled by her step mother. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her worlds future. Because there is something unusual about cinder, something that others would kill for.