Claudia GrayFiction · Science Fiction·b. 1970
Defy the Fates
Synopsis
Abel is a mech on the run from the Genesis authorities, and he has one mission left that matters: keeping Noemi Vidal alive. Saving her means facing the one person who can still destroy him. Burton Mansfield's consciousness survives without a body, and it wants a home. Abel's own body is the only bargaining chip he has.
Noemi has come back from the edge of death, and Abel's work on her has left her changed. She is no longer fully human and not quite a mech. No one else in the universe is like her, and she has to work out where she belongs. She also wants to build a society where anyone, a mech included, can be free.
Earth and the colony planets are now at the point of their last battle. Earth will go to any length to keep its hold over all of humanity, so the stakes reach well past the two leads.
This is science fiction and the third and final book in the Defy the Stars trilogy. It follows Abel, the most advanced mech made, and Noemi, the first human-mech hybrid, as they fight together to shift the balance of the galaxy. Expect a tense, high-stakes finish to a war that has been building across the series.