She cruised through the crowd, quiet and smooth as exhaust fumes, eyes on her mark. But Lemon Fresh hadn’t survived fourteen years in this dumpster of a city on her looks alone. Her peepers were exactly where they should’ve been, which is to say, on the street around them. A black metal implant sat in the socket where her right eye should’ve been, and silicon chips were plugged into a Memdrive behind her right ear. She was tall, a little gangly, sun-bleached blond hair undercut into a flashy fauxhawk. The girl that Crusty was rolling with looked a little sharper. But she’d heard he was some kind of tech genius, and Lem figured a gent like that had to be carrying some decent scratch. He was a newcomer to Los Diablos, and he didn’t look much fancy, true cert. The old man was seven kinds of crusty, jawing with one of the local parts dealers and stopping occasionally to smother a septic cough behind an oil-stained fist. She was lurking in the shade of an auto-peddler, green eyes narrowed behind dusty goggles, scoping her next meal ticket.

But she’d been running the Los Diablos streets since she was knee-high to a cockroach, and in her fourteen years in the sprawl, she’d learned a trick or two. As a girl who’d been found in a detergent box as a baby, she’d had a tougher life than most. Lemon Fresh had taken the first option-she was too short for the second, and the third sounded like zero fun. If you were born there, you grew up sharp, you grew up hard or you didn’t grow up at all. Built in the heart of a scrap pile, Los Diablos wasn’t a city, it was a meat grinder, chewing up people and spitting out the bones. A reminder of humanity’s greatest age, and greatest folly. The capital of Dregs was a rusting cesspit. and they may not be who you think they are.The streets of Los Diablos were no place for a kid. In the end, violent clashes and heartbreaking choices reveal the true heroes. But the threat doesn't stop there, because the lifelikes are determined to access the program that will set every robot free, a task requiring both Eve and Ana, the girl she was created to replace. But with the country on the brink of a new world war-this time between the BioMaas swarm at CityHive and Daedalus's army at Megopolis, loyalties will be pushed to the brink, unlikely alliances will form and with them, betrayals. For Eve and Lemon, discovering the truth about themselves-and each other-was too much for their friendship to take.

And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and death. From the bestselling co-author of the Illuminae Files comes the thrilling finale in the LIFEL1K3 trilogy-hailed by Marie Lu as 'a breathless, action-packed exploration of what humanity really means.' Best friends have become enemies.

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