Little do the Gladers know that the arrival of one female could change anything, and everything.

Her name is Zoe. She is the fiery girl from beyond the maze in a place called The Zone. She happens to come across The Glade by chance but thanks to her mistakes she must now pay the price. She has to now face bonds that are new to her, someone who acts like a brother and someone who can make her heart feel like it's being ripped from her body. Yet at the same time the pressure of The Zone is seeping through her and she knows she has to go back but how can she when things are changing and her life comes crashing down? Or when The Gladers and The Zoners begin to collide?

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.