Irene finds herself on the side of the road but can't remember how she got there or exactly what happened last night; it's not until she meets Jonah, a 14-year-old boy with a passion for all things afterlife, that she realizes she's dead. But being stuck as a ghost on earth where no one can hear her, the food has no taste, the alcohol doesn't get her drunk, and terrifying monsters attack her...
As a golem, Adem has spent his entire immortal life forced by his maker to guard over a mysterious box and kill anyone who touches it, but all Adem really wants is to be human. When an angel comes to Adem, offering him a soul, and thus his humanity, in exchange for bringing back the angel's love from the Underworld, Adem decides to take the risk, not realizing the consequences his actions could...
It's 1903 and the city of London has been quarantined for 13 years due to the Hyde drug, originally created by Dr. Jekyll, an experiment that went horribly wrong and created a city of heart-eating monsters. Elliot, a 17-year-old who accidentally made himself an empath when he tried to escape his troubles with a serum he created, is struggling to cope with his new abilities and his life in general...
Thomas and his friends have finally reached the safe house and are told the tests are over, but are they really? Thomas and some of his fellow Gladers are done trusting WICKED, are determined to do what's right, and are willing to do whatever it takes to save their friends and anyone else WICKED might get their hands...
Just when they thought they were safe, Thomas and the Gladers find out the maze was only Phase 1 of the experiment--the easy part. Now they have to make their way across a hundred miles of the Scorch, a barren, desert wasteland to get to a safehouse with nothing but the food in their packs as they battle the weather, outsiders bent on killing them, and maybe even each...
Thomas awakens with no memory of his life or anything about himself other than his name only to find himself in the middle of a giant, creature-filled maze with a group of teenage guys who've been living there for years. None of them know how or why they've been put there, but they're determined to solve the maze and find a way...