“Gripping and addictive-Shepherd provides delivered again! A captivating mixture of intrigue, deft twists, and complex questions, that is a must-read.”-Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, New York Times bestselling writers of the Broken Stars

The Maze Runner meets Scott Westerfeld with this new series Kirkus Testimonials calls “swoon-worthy and thrilling” about teens held captive inside a human zoo by an otherworldly race. From Megan Shepherd, the acclaimed author of the Madman’s Child trilogy.

When Cora Mason on the subject of The Cage wakes in a desert, she doesn’t know where she is or who place her right now there. As she explores, she discovers an impossible mixture of environments-tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely clear town cobbled collectively from different civilizations, all watched over by eerie dark windows. And she isn’t only.

Four other teenagers are also taken: a beautiful magic size, a tattooed smuggler, a secretive genius, and an army brat who seems to know too much about Cora’s past. non-e of them have a clue in regards to what happened, and most of them have secrets. As the unlikely group problems for leadership, they slowly start to trust each other. But when their secret jailer appears-a attractive young guard known as Cassian-they recognize that their captivity is usually more terrifying than they could ever imagine: their captors aren’t from Earth. And they took the five teens for an otherworldly zoo-where the exhibits are humans.