"Lady "Poppy" Pyppenia is guarded by the Sleepless Knight Cyrenic but becomes endangered when an assassin threatens her life in the new king's reign. As Poppy and Cyrenic try to discover who wants her dead, they must navigate the dangerous waters of life at court and of their growing feelings for one another"--

When lonely Alex gets an expensive X5 realistic android as a birthday gift from his grandmother, he finds her lack of individuality disappointing and begins to explore the illegal underground of unlocked artificial intelligence.