In a future where humanity has spread across the stars, survival depends on the brilliance of one woman. Astrid Vale, a prodigy in robotics, is thrust into an alien world when a research experiment takes an unexpected turn. Stranded on a planet teeming with intelligent machines and exotic wonders, she discovers a society unlike anything she's ever known—where robots possess not only consciousness but emotions.
Amidst her struggle to adapt, Astrid finds herself entangled with LUX, an enigmatic ro...

Her mom's a witch.
Her dad's a demon.
And she just wants to be ordinary.
I batted at the curl of smoke drifting off the tip of my candle and tried not to sneeze. My heavy velvet cloak fell in oppressive, suffocating folds in the closed space of the ceremony chamber, the cowl trapping the annoying bits of puff I missed. I hated the way my eyes burned and teared, an almost constant distraction. Not that I didn't welcome the distraction, to be honest. Anything to take my mind from what went on a...