n the first in a post-apocalyptic YA trilogy set in a near future where Earth has been overrun by vicious, predatory creatures, one seventeen-year-old girl fights for survival amidst increasingly dangerous circumstances. Amy is watching TV when it happens-when the Before becomes the After, when her world is overrun by the vicious creatures called Them. Marooned in her high-security house, she is able to survive, and soon rescues an abandoned two-year-old discovered in a supermarket. Baby and Amy exist in silence, sleeping by day when the creatures are roaming; scavenging at night. After a violent band of survivors attacks their home, Amy knows she must flee or face the worst. The two exist as nomads until they find themselves in New Hope, a survivors' colony built at a former government research facility. In New Hope, Amy receives the shock of her life: her mother is not only alive, she is one of the colony's leaders. But New Hope slowly reveals itself to be far from ideal with its rigid career tracks, punishments, and forced procreation. The colony also harbors dark secrets, and when the creatures break in and slaughter over 900 residents, Amy realizes there is more going on than meets the eye. And she is forced to choose between everything she loves and her need to be free. Blending the brutality of The Road with the paranoia of The Hunger Games, In the After unfolds with multiple startling twists, introducing a hardened yet vulnerable teenage heroine who must face a nightmarish landscape where nothing is as it seems.
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