Her relationship with her stepmother Levana is strained at best, especially as Winter is secretly in love with her royal guard Jacin.

Jacin gives Scarlet a pod key and a knife and tells her to flee to RM9, Wolf's home Sector.

They break into a control room and Cinder hacks to display her video proclaiming herself to be Princess Selene and asking for the people to become her army.

Scarlet and Winter go to find the wolf-like mutations of human soldiers in an attempt to convince them to join Cinder's army.

Levana, in a bid to quell the uprising from the disastrous trial, announces Cinder is dead with a fake body to prove it.

During Levana's coronation, Cinder, Jacin and Iko break into the labs, steal the letumosis cure, and grab Winter out of suspension.

Cinder agrees to sign the Treaty of Bremen with Earth and is crowned Queen of Luna.

Winter took Meyer two years to complete and at times she thought that she "would never be finished" and that she "would be stuck in this book for the rest of my life.

[9][10][11] Booklist gave Winter a favorable review, praising Meyer for inserting "just enough veiled references to the original stories to spur intellectual and emotional connections.