But when their mysterious jailer-a handsome young guard called Cassian-appears, they realize that their captivity is more terrifying than they could ever imagine: Their captors aren't from Earth. As the unlikely group struggles for leadership, they slowly start to trust each other. None of them have a clue as to what happened, and all of them have secrets. And she isn't alone.įour other teenagers have also been taken: a beautiful model, a tattooed smuggler, a secretive genius, and an army brat who seems to know too much about Cora's past. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments-tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures-all watched over by eerie black windows. When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn't know where she is or who put her there. From Megan Shepherd, the acclaimed author of The Madman's Daughter trilogy. The Maze Runner meets Scott Westerfeld in this gripping new series about teens held captive in a human zoo by an otherworldly race.
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