“Give me one moment, I’m almost finished.” “Good day to you, friend,” greets Varian. Waverly's fairy tale has turned into a nightmare, and she, Ash, and her friends must navigate through a dizzying maze of freight elevators, secret passageways, and back rooms if they're going to survive the night.When you visit Varian’s corner of the Pond, they look like they’re busy doing… needlework? When they see you approach, they wave and beckon you over with a big smile. Before she can escape or contact the authorities, a mysterious global blackout puts the entire party on lockdown. This gala is harboring far more malevolent plots than just opening parents' pocketbooks.
All Waverly wants to do is shed her mask and be with her, but the evening takes a sinister turn when Waverly stumbles into a secret meeting between the dean and the school's top donors-and witnesses a brutal murder. The Masquerade is everything Waverly dreamed of, complete with extravagant gowns, wealthy parents writing checks, and flowing champagne. So when her tutoring student and resident "it girl" asks Waverly to attend the school's annual fundraising Masquerade disguised as her, Waverly jumps at the chance-especially once she finds out that Ash, the dean's daughter and her secret ex-girlfriend, will be there.
While her classmates are the children of the one percent, Waverly is getting by on tutoring gigs and the generosity of the school's charming and enigmatic dean. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and The Hazel Wood are cordially invited to spend one fateful night surviving an elite private school's epic masquerade ball in Jen Wilde's debut thriller, This Is the Way the World Ends.Īs an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy in New York City, Waverly is used to masking to fit in-in more ways than one.
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