Simon & Schuster
October 2014
On Sale: September 23, 2014
Featuring: Darcy Patel
ISBN: 1481422340 EAN: 9781481422345 Kindle: B00IBHS5LA Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a smart, thought-provoking novel-within-a-novel that you won't be able to put down. This edition includes an exclusive deleted chapter!
Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. With a contract in hand, she arrives in New York City with no apartment, no friends, and all the wrong clothes. But lucky for Darcy, she's taken under the wings of other seasoned and fledgling writers who help her navigate the city and the world of writing and publishing. Over the course of a year, Darcy finishes her book, faces critique, and falls in love.
Woven into Darcy's personal story is her novel, Afterworlds, a suspenseful thriller about a teen who slips into the โAfterworldโ to survive a terrorist attack. The Afterworld is a place between the living and the dead, and where many unsolvedโand terrifyingโstories need to be reconciled. Like Darcy, Lizzie too falls in loveโฆuntil a new threat resurfaces, and her special gifts may not be enough to protect those she cares about most.
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