Mary Hightower tries to get her Afterlights do the same things over and over again, living out their perfect day. Lief has been happy in his private forest for a hundred years.Even if forgetting in Everlost brings comfort and remembering brings pain, which memories would you most want to hold on to? Which would you want to forget? In the novel, we learn that the spirits in Everlost, detached from the living world, begin to forget things.How do you think you would react to this news? What is the first thing you would do?

Allie and Nick gradually discover they were killed in the car crash, and gradually accept their existence in Everlost.

Together they travel to meet Mary and her army of children for the ultimate showdown at Trinity, test site of the first atomic bomb. They enlist the help of a new friend, Jix, a “furjacker” (who possesses great cats, like leopards), and a “scar wraith” named Clarence, an adult in the living world who can see into Everlost, and whose touch will annihilate any Afterlight. When Allie, Nick, and Mikey discover Mary’s terrible goal, they vow to stop her. 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. 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.

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