Who Is Sara Bennett? The 'Normal Girl' Who Is Anything But

When a cage door slams shut behind you and hundreds of strangers are watching, you learn who you are fast.

Sara Bennett didn't come to start anything. But standing across from a smug, red-haired stranger who's just called her "a normal girl," something stirs in her — not rage, but an overwhelming need to assert herself. Not for the crowd. Not for anyone else in the room. Just for herself.

Here's the thing about Sara: everyone underestimates her, and everyone is wrong. When her opponent accuses her of being cyber-enhanced, Sara's answer is a warning wrapped in a smirk — you have no idea how enhanced I am. Her movements in a fight are fluid and reactive, water finding the gap. Whatever Sara is, "normal" isn't the word.

Where Anna Matrix burns loud, Sara runs deep. She's controlled where Anna is impulsive, deliberate where Anna swings first. Which makes it all the more combustible that fate keeps shoving these two women into the same room — and eventually, into the same fight against something much bigger than either of them.

The bond that forms between Anna and Sara is the emotional core of the entire Metallic Souls series. It starts, fittingly, with a punch.

Read their first collision in Book One →