From NY Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes an extraordinary novel of fear, friendship, courage, and hope that Kirkus Reviews says ‘will have readers up until the wee hours,’ School Library Journal raves is ‘fast-paced and captivating,’ and E. Lockhart, writer of We Were Liars, calls ‘a thrill a minute.’

Anxiety began as so many things do in Carp, an unhealthy town of 12 thousand people in the center of nowhere: because it was summertime, and there was nothing else to accomplish. Heather never about Panic believed she’d compete in stress, a legendary video game played by graduating seniors. She’d never thought of herself as fearless, the type of one who would fight to stick out. But when she discovers something, and somebody, to battle for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever believed.

Dodge hasn’t been afraid of anxiety. His magic formula will fuel him, and obtain him completely the overall game; he’s sure of it. But what he doesn’t know is normally that he’s not really the only one with a top secret. Everyone provides something to play for. For Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unpredicted revelations, and the chance of first love for every of them-and the data that sometimes the things we dread are those we are in need of the most.