{Book 1 of 3} ❛❛Cause in a sky, cause in a sky full of stars I think I saw you❜❜ Maze was only her beginning. Only the first stage of WICKED's cruel game of life and death. And she...she was just a pawn. The first girl and the last star on his sky. Her name was Aria...a girl whose title said nothing about her and his Thomas...a boy who saw her brighter than stars. [Thomas x OC] [The Maze Runner]

Before you went into the Maze. Before you were dropped into the Scorch. Before you escaped from the very people who raised you -- you worked for them. Brought to WICKED headquarters when you were no older than seven years old by your father, you were employed by them. You made friends. You met a guy. You were as close to happy as it was possible to be with the world half in flames; so happy, in fact, you almost wished you hadn't found out what they were really trying to do. What they intended to do to you. To Alby, Minho, Thomas. To Newt. You almost wished you didn't have to stop them. Almost.

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.