When her best friend, Elias, leaves to join the Recruiters, Annah is left alone in the dreary, hopeless Dark City. Fearing he is dead, Annah sets off into the Forest of Hands and Teeth with hopes of finding her estranged sister Abigail, who she hasn’t seen since she, her sister and Elias ventured into the Forest one fateful day many years ago.

Readers of Mary's terrifying trek through the deadly forest in THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH will remember that she survived the all-too-real nightmare to finally realize her dream of seeing the ocean. Now it's her daughter Gabry's turn to face the forest.

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future --- - between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?