

Plenty of quick action pairs with strong emotional content in this queer-friendly science fiction.


As despotic rulers battle for control and truths about the planet's history are revealed, each of the three must learn to let go of the past long enough to ensure humanity's future. Drawn into a web of political intrigue, deadly family secrets, and forbidden science, these should-be adversaries quickly find strength in unlikely alliances, surprising friendships, and nascent romance. In the distant future, three eighteen-year-olds navigate life on a terraformed alternative earth plagued by social division and disease: Anna, the rebel mechanic with gift for clockwork hearts, desperate to save her dying community Nathaniel, the wayward son of the city's most powerful man, desperate to escape his father's abusive grasp and Eliza, the Queen's deadliest spy and Nathaniel's betrothed, desperate to live and love on her own terms.
