About the Book

It's been nearly a year since every person over the age of 14 disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California. As the series comes to a close in this fifth and penultimate book of the series, things are turning even grimmer.

Book Synopsis

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 5 in the GONE series that Stephen King calls a "driving, torrential narrative."

Night is falling in the FAYZ. Permanently. The gaiaphage has blotted out the sun and the barrier that surrounds the town of Perdido Beach is turning black. It's Sam's worst nightmare. With Astrid still missing and Edilio and Lana struggling to maintain order, Sam and his followers need all the courage they can get. As their world descends into darkness, only real heroes will survive.

The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best.

Have you read all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light?

"I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent." --Stephen King

From the Back Cover

It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.

despite the hunger, despite the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.

Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over--turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. A will to survive and a desire to take care of those they love endures in this ravaged band, even in the bleakest moments. But in darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. After so many months, is all about to be lost in the FAYZ?

Review Quotes

Praise for GONE: "These are exciting, high-tension stories...There are monsters, there are kids with mad-crazy superpowers, there's the mystery of where all the adults went. Most of all, there are children I can believe in and root for."--Stephen King - ALA Booklist
Praise for HUNGER: "Readers will be unable to avoid involuntarily gasping, shuddering, or flinching while reading this suspense-filled story."--VOYA (starred review) "Like GONE, this novel is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. Nonstop action."-- - School Library Journal
Praise for PLAGUE "The very definition of a page-turner."--ALA Booklist "The characters' interior struggles are almost as vivid as the action. Fans will be satisfied--for now." - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (starred review)
PRAISE FOR FEAR: "Grant's masterstroke continues to be how his huge cast of dangerously talented mutants remains as haunted and fallible as anyone else." - ALA Booklist
Praise for GONE: "A tour de force that will leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless." - ALA Booklist