The story begins with Ana’s desperate attempt to obtain some co-ordinates to a ship that might be able to help her robot (metal) best friend D09 (Di) from a glitch in his programming. Heart of Iron is told from 4 points of view – Ana’s, Di’s, Robb (the Ironblood royalty) and Jax (the pilot of the ship Ana has grown up on). I was unaware that this was a retelling of Anastasia until I after I started reading it, but that really made no difference to me, because I have no idea what the story of Anastasia is about! But when a darkness from Ana’s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves? What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives-and unearth dangerous secrets. Now their entire kingdom is after them-and the coordinates-and not everyone wants them captured alive.

When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run.

He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. But D09-one of the last remaining illegal Metals-has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.Īna’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature.

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Heart of iron by ashley poston