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    Summary

    When the Maze opens, secrets do too.

    Red is the enigmatic leader of an organization devoted to saving the last surviving teens WICKED has marked as test subjects. While WICKED hunts for a cure at any cost, Red’s people fight to keep the children alive — not dissected, not broken, not sacrificed.

    She just has one problem.
    Red isn’t human.
    And no one can ever know.

    Her shapeshifting abilities are the reason she survived the Scorch, the reason she leads, and the reason WICKED would tear her apart if they discovered what she is. But when a group of new arrivals — Thomas, Newt, Minho, Frypan, Winston, and Teresa — escape the Maze and stumble into her sanctuary, Red’s carefully guarded secrets begin to slip.

    Strange creatures stalk the forests. A dead Griever turns up mutilated. And the Gladers bring with them more than trauma; they bring questions Red can’t answer and feelings she doesn’t want to confront.

    As WICKED closes in and the world threatens to collapse under mutation, violence, and betrayal, Red must decide:
    Will she reveal who — and what — she truly is to save them?
    Or will keeping her secret destroy the only hope humanity has left?

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