There are a lot of things that Annah wish to forget: the appearance on her behalf sister’s face before Annah left her in back of in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear from the barbed wire that could scar her forever. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias remaining her for the Recruiters.

Annah’s globe stopped that day time, and she’s been looking forward to Elias to get back ever since. In some way, without him, her lifestyle doesn’t feel much unique of the lifeless that roam the squandered town around her. Until she fits Catcher, and everything feels alive again.

But Catcher has his personal secrets. Dark, terrifying truths that link him to a previous Annah offers longed to ignore, and to a future too lethal to consider. And now it’s up to Annah: can she continue to live in a world covered in the blood of the living? Or is normally death the just escape from your Return’s destruction?