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''Scarlet'' is the second novel in Marissa Meyer's ''The Lunar Chronicles'', published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of "Little Red Riding Hood", similar to its previous book ''Cinder'' which was loosely based on "Cinderella". ==Plot summary== Scarlet Benoit is a young girl living on her grandmother's farm in Rieux, France. When her grandmother goes missing, she embarks on a dangerous mission to solve the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance. While delivering fresh goods to one of her loyal but unfriendly customers, she meets a jittery shy street fighter whose code name is revealed to be Wolf, who saves her after she makes a speech about Cinder, a Lunar cyborg. She notices a tattoo on his arm; a string of numbers and letters that have no meaning to her. Wolf says to meet him at an abandoned farm, where people box and place bets. When she gets back from her job, her dad is there and is crazily trying to find something. She questions her dad, who has burn marks all up his arms from being tortured, and he says that the same people have her grandma. The one clue that he can remember is that the kidnappers had a tattoo on their forearm. Scarlet heads out to question Wolf. She goes and watches Wolf fight. Wolf almost kills the opponent, and she runs away repulsed by what she saw, and goes home. The next morning Wolf comes by her farm and explains to her what happened (he ran away from the kidnappers and now fights to make a living). Scarlet discovers information which leads them to Paris. Wolf decides to help her find her grandmother. The kidnappers want to interrogate the grandmother in order to obtain information about the lost Lunar princess Selene. The princess is actually Linh Cinder, a cyborg mechanic. Cinder found this out through a Dr. Erland at the end of the first book. Meanwhile, Linh Cinder is now a wanted fugitive, breaking out of prison with the help of Dr. Erland and the new mechanical appendages he gave her. While escaping, Cinder meets Carswell Thorne, a U.S. Republic fugitive sentenced in New Beijing, and decides to brainwash him to help her. During their escape from the prison, Cinder and Thorne break in to steal Thorne’s stolen U.S. military space ship to leave the atmosphere. While aboard the ship the two come across problems with the ship's auto pilot. Cinder, remembering she has Iko's personality chip, places it into the ship, giving the childhood friend and android a new body. Cinder slowly starts to learn how to use her Lunar powers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scarlet (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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