Mary has a plan to bring the souls of millions of children to her in one stroke: with the help of Milos and his skinjackers, she is going to destroy the living world. When Milos and his team go to work for Mary, creating terror in the living world, Allie and Mikey team up with Nick to take one last stand against Mary-at Graceland.Īfter her seeming defeat, Mary returns to Everlost, using her skinjackers to sow chaos and terror across the western United States, replenishing her stock of Afterlights.

Allie, who has learned to “skinjack” (possess and take over a living human body), meets a team of skinjackers led by the charming Milos. Meanwhile, Allie heads for home with Mikey, the boy she loves-formerly the monstrous McGill, now returned to human form. Even though she still loves Nick, she sees his actions as the ultimate betrayal. But Mary Hightower finds purpose in gathering these Afterlights to her, and wants to control all of Everlost. Nick has made it his mission to help children escape from Everlost to the light at the end of the tunnel.

But as Nick falls in love with Mary, and Allie comes to know the McGill, they begin to wonder which one is the real monster. They also hear stories of a monster called the McGill, a fearsome creature searching for souls to devour. Along the way they spend time with Mary Hightower, who has made it her mission to save and comfort all the lost children of this inter-world, whom she has named “Afterlights”. The bickering Allie and Nick, traveling with their new friend Lief, head toward their homes. In this gripping trilogy, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.When teens Allie and Nick are killed in a car crash, it isn’t the end of their story, but the beginning: they wake up in Everlost, a world poised between life and death, superimposed on the living world and populated only by the souls of children. At stake is nothing less than the fate of Everlost and the living world they have left behind. Nick and Allie have to learn to survive in a world with different rules, and figure out who they can trust-and who they must oppose at all costs. It’s a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.Īllie and Nick don’t survive the car crash, and end up in Everlost, where coins are more valuable than anyone knows, fortune cookies tell the truth, monsters are real, and the queen of lost souls lives in a once-beloved tower.

Some are caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. Not every child who dies goes on to the afterlife. From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Arc of a Scythe trilogy and Challenger Deep, the compulsively readable Skinjacker trilogy is now available in a collectible boxed set.

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