After nearly twenty years of near misses, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew finally marry, but in 2005 Emma is killed when a lorry hits her while she is cycling.

Tally Youngblood, who betrayed the rebel town of the Smoke by leading Special Circumstances to it, chooses to make amends.

Candace Chen, pregnant and travelling with a group of survivors of the Shen Fever pandemic, escapes from their controlling leader Bob after the group shelters in a suburban mall.

Coraline tricks the Other Mother into opening the door between worlds, rescues her parents and the souls of three ghost children, and escapes.

Thomas, Teresa and the surviving Gladers escape the Maze through the Griever Hole after a desperate fight, and they are rescued by people who seem to be rebels fighting WICKED.

John Perry, a seventy-five-year-old man transferred into a young, genetically enhanced body to fight for the Colonial Defense Forces, survives the brutal Battle of Coral and is promoted to captain.

The uplifted spiders of Kern’s World, led by Portia’s descendants, defeat the desperate human survivors of the ark ship Gilgamesh not by killing them but by infecting them with the same nanovirus that uplifted the spiders.

Yozo Oba, who has spent his life hiding behind a clown’s mask, ends up addicted to morphine and is committed to a mental hospital.

Stanley Yelnats and his friend Zero dig up the buried suitcase that the Warden has been searching for, and it turns out to belong to Stanley’s great-grandfather.

The biologist reaches the lighthouse and the Tower, encounters the Crawler writing words on the wall, and learns her husband, who went on the previous expedition, has been transformed.