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Since before Maella can remember, one family rule has shaped her life: never open a door. Maella comes from a family of doormakers - people who unleash otherworldly violence when they open something even as simple as a cabinet door. But when circumstances force Maella to open a portal, she discovers worlds of nightmarish flying monsters, mystical drug deals, political prisoners, religious cults, and a terrifying prediction: Maella will die upon opening her seventh door. 

A single drop of blood is all it takes to begin changing you. Sometimes the blood fills you with rage, but sometimes it does...something else. For a limited time, grab book one at a substantial discount. When a new virus unleashes violence that devastates 18-year-old Corrina's neighborhood, all Corrina can think about is surviving. But when the boy she loves is kidnapped by a group of government soldiers, she must team up with a strange group of street kids to save him.

A last chance. The situation for Dessa and her friends looks bleak. Sanctuary’s final end game is revealed. They have one chance to survive this, but the cost might be too great to bear.

Everything falls apart. Separated from her friends, Dessa is desperate to reunite everyone and make Sanctuary safe again. But Sanctuary reveals surprise plans for Dessa that undermine everything she thought she knew. And when strangers show up at Sanctuary's front gate, demanding to trade, she must race to uncover the real reason for their arrival before it's too late.

Dessa and her friends reach the safety of the surface, mourning the death of one of their own, only to discover everything has changed. Old alliances have failed, and more than half of Sanctuary's staff mutiny—they will do whatever it takes to wrest control of Sanctuary from the scientists. Sanctuary is fighting a civil war, but the kids from Project Polus are trapped deep underground with Super V's on the loose and on the hunt. Dessa and her friends must risk it all to raid Sanctuary, save the kids, and make their home safe again. But what if Sanctuary can't be saved?

What is sanctuary hiding? Dessa and her friends have brought the children in Project Polus to the safety of Sanctuary’s walls—yet not all is what it seems. Scientists, Security, and Support run a caste-like facility that forces people with the combo cure—people like Dessa’s friends—to live outside.

Dessa is running out of time. The side effects from the zombie-blocker meds have become too great to bear, and so Dessa and her friends must bring all the Project Polus children to a special government facility called Sanctuary to get them help. But when rogue soldiers attack, the group is split. Now, in order to reach Sanctuary in time, Dessa and her companions must brave the dangers of almost a hundred miles of swampy river. Unfortunately, zombies can swim.

An apocalypse ruined all of Dessa's plans. She's reunited with her brother and plans to hide with him and her friends, while waiting out the zombie apocalypse in safety. But an unexpected crisis throws Dessa's group into a race against time. They need some zombie-blocker meds, and they need them fast. Unfortunately, Dessa and her friends will soon learn that the outside world has more than just zombies standing in their way. 

Dessa has plans. She plans to stay out of trouble in the group home where she lives. She plans to work crazy hours at the grocery story to save for her own place. She plans to get her little brother back, soon, from his foster parents. But when a zombie apocalypse arrives, it wrecks all of Dessa's plans. With the city falling into chaos, Dessa must use her street smarts to survive. Her only weapon against the zombies is a pillowcase of tuna cans. And there's only one plan left in the entire universe that matters. Find and save her brother before it's too late. 

To keep the credit flowing, Junle must light her torches. Indentured to the Tower of Shadows, Junle needs to earn return home credits to pay for her mother's life-saving medicine, so she signs up for the most dangerous and well paying job in the tower. Junle is a torchlighter, one of the few who are strong enough to climb the pipes outside the tower to keep them working and to keep the special licatherin drug flowing.

Who will win control of the three worlds? Maella's been captured by General Foster - the very person hunting her family into extinction. He plans to force Maella and her brother to open access to the One Door. Once General Foster controls the One Door, he'll control all the worlds and hunt down the rest of Maella's doormaker family. But when the relic that controls access to the One Door is discovered to be incomplete, Maella is confronted with what seems like her only option for survival: To align herself with Doormaker Tain.

The Tower of Shadows Has Fallen. In order to survive her death prediction, Maella might have just broken all the portals across the three worlds. Maella's best friend, Claritsa, has been kidnapped. Maella's father is still missing. Only Sethlo and the other torchlighters are by her side, but now that the Tower of Shadows has fallen (and all the licatherin is gone along with it), they will soon suffer the effects of krokosod - the flesh-death that results from licatherin withdrawal.

One family rule has shaped Esson’s life: never open a door. Esson comes from a family of doormakers - people who unleash otherworldly violence when they open something even as simple as a refrigerator door. Esson’s family lied to him. Esson didn’t die when he opened a door.

Light show the way. Darkness show the stars. Maella has broken the one family rule. She has (accidentally) unleashed otherworldly violence on her friends, herself, and the three worlds. But then Maella and her friends are captured and forced to work as torchlighters inside the Tower of Shadows. Now Maella must race against the prediction of her death all while keeping her doormaker abilities a secret, uncovering the truth about her own father, and escaping the Tower of Shadows with her friends. But Maella will also discover her terrifying role in the search for the One Door.

Three years later, 16-year-old Maibe hides from the world, from her mistakes, from her friends. But the double infection that keeps them from becoming V isn't working like it did before. Maibe and her friends are turning. Then rumors surface of a new cure. A cure that would erase the infections that destroyed the world. It becomes a deadly race between Feeb and uninfected. Whoever finds the cure will control it - and everyone who needs it.

For 16-year-old Gabbi, life on the street isn't much different after a virus sweeps away civilization: Watch your back, do anything to survive, protect your friends. But Gabbi's friends are imprisoned at a refugee camp, and every move she makes puts them in even more danger. Gabbi will do everything to keep her friends alive, but what if everything isn't enough?

Who will survive? Who will stay human? Mary knows how to thrive on the street. She makes it her mission to keep other kids away from everyday monsters. But when she's attacked by a crazed man clutching a bloody heart, she realizes there's a new kind of monster in town. A single drop of blood, and now Mary's one of the infected. Unless she can stop the virus and save her friends, the new monster in town might just be her.

Separated from her brother by vigilantes and military groups working under secret orders, Dessa and her friends search for her brother, and all of the children involved in Project Polus, to administer the zombie-blocker meds in time. But when Dessa discovers the meds will soon stop working, she and her friends must travel with a military escort into the heart of a city to find a new, more powerful treatment in time to keep the children from turning. Unfortunately, more than a million souls infected with the ravenous Lyssa virus stand in their way.