Shawn, a teenager, arrives in a glade at the center of a giant labyrinth. Like the other youths dumped there before him, he has no memory of his previous life. Shawn quickly becomes part of the group and soon after demonstrates a unique perspective that scores him a promotion to Runner status -- those who patrol the always-changing maze to find an escape route. Together with Melisa, the only female, Shawn tries to convince his cohorts that he knows a way out.

After Being Taken form the maze. the runners are being held in wicked. after finding out the lie's that lay behind wicked. the kids notice that they never escaped. they run away and must face the dangers of the torch. an outside world filled with dangers and man eating creatures called "Cranks" then they notice that the Maze was just the beginning.

Shawn and Thomas leads some escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions that the Gladers have been asking since they arrived in the maze.