The Little Cyborg: A Little Mermaid Retelling

The surface isn’t safe, the sky is a dream, and humans are a death sentence.

Those are the three rules that all modders in the Wastelands live by. The rules everyone accepts—everyone except Celine. All modders have something special about them, but her dad has given her the greatest gift of them all: a mechanical arm that can fix anything. Celine is sure that’s her ticket out of the dust storms and into the stars. She spends her days sneaking to the surface to collect forgotten trash from the human city in hopes of building a ship.

It seems her prayers have been answered when a ship streaks through the air, crashing nearby, promising all the parts she could ever need. What she finds instead is a half-dead, impossibly handsome, young man in need of rescuing. She acts without thinking, rules be damned.

When her father learns what she's done, Celine quickly learns there are some things even her incredible arm can’t fix. Without it, she might have a chance at her dreams and so much more...but she’ll also be defenseless, surrounded by humans who’d turn on her if they knew the truth. What’s a cyborg to do?

The Little Cyborg is 51,000 words of forbidden, fairy tale romance with strong themes of self-acceptance and adventure. This book contains NO harsh language, explicit violence, or graphic romance scenes. It is an adult romance, but is suitable for older YAs as well.