As a cyborg, Cinder has no rights and is treated as Adri’s personal property. Even though all citizens are invited and Cinder is the family’s only breadwinner, Adri tells Cinder that she cannot afford a dress for her. There she finds Adri and her two stepsisters, Pearl and Peony, being fitted for gowns for Prince Kai’s annual ball. Since Iko cannot move fast enough to get out of the marketplace and not be trampled, Cinder and Iko hide in the booth until the area clears. Emergency personnel quickly isolate the baker, Chang Sasha, and test anyone who had contact with her. One of the vendors, the baker, comes down with symptoms. She hides her mechanical foot from him and keeps the glove covering her mechanical hand in place.Īfter Kai leaves Nainsi, a fast acting plague that has been ravaging Earth, letumosis, hits the market. Cinder is dismayed because she is insecure.

Kai is surprised to learn that the famous mechanic is a teenage girl, and he flirts with her. He is looking for the legendary mechanic to repair his android Nainsi, which has mysteriously stopped working. He is in disguise, but she recognizes him. While waiting, Cinder is approached by Prince Kai, son of the emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth. Working in her booth at the market, Cinder removes the mechanical foot that her human body has outgrown and waits on her android, Iko, to bring her a new, larger one. The few people who know that she is a cyborg shun her. Despite her success, Cinder avoids telling people that she is a cyborg, as cyborgs are treated poorly.

After his death, her stepmother, Adri, treats her cruelly and forces her to work to support the entire family.Ĭinder becomes a successful mechanic in the city of New Beijing, 126 years after the end of World War IV.

Told that she was orphaned by the same accident that injured her, she is taken in by an inventor, Linh Garan. Parts of Cinder’s natural body have been replaced with mechanical ones, and she has a computer interface in her brain. Linh Cinder is a teenage girl who, as a result of an accident at a very young age, is now a cyborg.

Cinder book series