Through the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a “masterful” (Cory Doctorow) novel-within-a-novel that you won’t be able to put down.

Darcy Patel offers put college on hold to publish her teen book, Afterworlds. Using a contract at hand, she occurs in New York City with no apartment, no close friends, and all of the incorrect clothing. But lucky for Darcy, she’s used beneath the wings of various other seasoned and fledgling writers who help her navigate the city and the world of composing and publishing. Over the course of a calendar year, Darcy finishes her book, encounters critique, and falls in love.

Woven into Darcy’s personal story can be her novel, Afterworlds, a suspenseful thriller about a teen who slips in to the “Afterworld” to survive a terrorist assault. The Afterworld can be a place between your living as well as the inactive, and where many unsolved-and terrifying-stories have to be reconciled. Like Darcy, Lizzie as well falls in love…until a new threat resurfaces, and her carefully selected presents may possibly not be enough to safeguard those she cares about most.