Facing the trials is the hardest thing Natalia and her friends have ever been put through, that they can remember anyway. First it's the Maze, then the Scorch, and lastly they get put in individual rooms that they have no contact with anybody in. Natalia loses so many of her loved ones, including her brother who she finds out has the flare. She makes friends and enemies, but some enemies turned out to be not so bad after all, when a few friends turned out to be enemies. Natalia has herself to hate, for keeping the trials going on an basically killing the ones she loves. But also to thank, for getting her closer to her boyfriend, Nick, and best friend, Rachel. In the end, she may lose everything and everyone she loved.
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and where the other begins?"
- Edger Allan Poe
Death follows Anne everywhere she goes.
It takes anyone who gets close to her.
Her friends, people she cares about, people she loves.
No one is safe near, Anne. No one recovers and no one forgets.
How can she possibly keep everyone safe in the Scorch when they're near her?
Read the first book, "Remember Me."