heart of iron  <p><strong>*a 2019 rainbow book list selection*</strong></p><p><strong>an action-packed tale full of romance, royalty, and adventure, inspired by the story of <em>anastasia</em>. perfect for fans of <em>six of crows,</em> <em>cinder</em>, and the cult classic television show <em>firefly</em>.</strong> </p><p>seventeen-year-old ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. 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. 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.</p><p>ana’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. but at the last moment, a spoiled ironblood boy beats ana to her prize. he has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them.</p><p>when everything goes wrong, she and the ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and not everyone wants them captured alive.</p><p>what they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives—and unearth dangerous secrets. 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? </p>