The middle-class daughter of a faculty member, Rachel feels invisible except for her one new friend, harmless school gossip Saundra Clairmont. Rachel, a 16-year-old trauma survivor, is initiated into her private school’s secret society for horror fans.Ī year after surviving a violent attack, high school junior Rachel Chavez becomes the new girl at Manchester Prep on Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side. Contextual clues point to some ethnic diversity. The author once again delivers supernatural melodrama that’s both high-spirited and absorbing.

De la Cruz has added a lot of conceptual layers to this fictional world, and not everything is wrapped up neatly and tidily, but those who have followed the series will likely feel satisfied in seeing off these characters. This volume brings the journeys of Schuyler and her true love, Jack, to a close (at least in this parallel universe) while still being accessible to readers new to this world. Who-or what-could she be? Meanwhile, Jack and Max are dealing with different types of confinement. She also catches Schuyler’s attention as a possible supernatural threat. But now there’s a new girl at school, Aoife Hayward, and her grunge fashion sense stands out from the crowd at exclusive Duchesne. Her secret life as a half-blood vampire, one of the immortal Blue Bloods, is complicated enough on a regular day. Without her bondmate, she’s relied more heavily on Oliver Golding-Chang, her human Familiar and best friend, for emotional comfort. Jack went searching for Max, and Schuyler hasn’t heard from him since. However, Jack’s twin brother, Max, was captured, and their friend Kingsley Martin was killed. It’s been two months since Schuyler Cervantes-Chase and Jack Force stopped Lucifer from carrying out a plan to exterminate all mortal Red Bloods in Manhattan with a plague. This follow-up to After Life (2022) completes the Blue Bloods series offshoot duology.

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