Beyond These Walls Books in Order

Beginning compulsory service beyond Edin’s walls, Spike faces infected attackers, harsh orders and an officer determined to see him fail. Becoming a protector’s apprentice may offer his desired future, but obedience threatens the people he most wants to save.

At eighteen, Edin’s young people must leave the city for compulsory service fighting diseased hordes, and only half return. Spike, Matilda and their friends enter that deadly world determined to survive the system that treats their losses as expected.

Leaving Edin with little beyond painful memories, William and his friends follow a map toward other communities. The wilderness offers no safe delay, forcing them to balance hope for a better home against the immediate need to survive.

Matilda returns to Edin hoping to free her imprisoned brother, only to discover that the city’s open gates have admitted the diseased. With companions beside her, she must face a rescue far more dangerous than confronting official resistance.

Spike still hopes to become a protector’s apprentice and secure a future with the woman he loves. Winning the trials requires trusting a corrupt system and enduring an officer’s hostility, while threats emerge from people he never expected to fear.

Seeking refuge with a new acquaintance, William and his friends cross ruins contested by two hostile cities. Soldiers, cannibalistic scavengers and the diseased make the journey perilous, while uncertainty about their guide leaves the promised sanctuary far from assured.

After escaping an abusive asylum, Matilda and Olga must return for a friend and other prisoners left inside. An infected wound complicates the rescue, while a power failure removes the mechanism that once kept diseased attackers contained.

Learning that Matilda and Olga have been taken for a forced wedding, their companions race to reach them within three days. Trapped routes, violent escorts and diseased attackers threaten both groups before they can confront the man awaiting his captives.

Gracie offers William and his friends a temporary refuge in an underground community concealed from hostile neighbors. They intend only to recover before reaching the distant wall, but unwelcome residents and hidden tensions threaten to prevent their departure.

Battered by their journey, William’s group debates turning back or continuing south through a vast prison. Hostile guards, violent inmates and trapped passageways stand between them and the answers they have risked so much to find.

After surviving infected attackers and hostile communities, William and his friends reach the immense wall dividing their country. Their plan to cross promises answers and perhaps sanctuary, but overcoming the barrier may demand more losses than they can bear.

William and his friends finally reach the apparently uninfected south after fighting through a vast prison. Their hope of beginning again conceals an immediate threat: one diseased creature has followed them through the gates they left behind.

Joni leads an army against a rising cult while concealing a truth that could destroy her support. Elsewhere, scattered friends seek safety among enemies and attempt another rescue, facing a world where each desperate decision risks adding to the dead.

A new community offers Rayne the possibility of a fresh start and an unexpected alliance. Ignoring the warning signs initially seems worth the risk, until bodies begin appearing and threaten the security she hoped to find there.

Two groups secure temporary shelter in separate tower blocks without controlling the dangers around them. As Olga confronts betrayal and Joni tries to help guards escape, infected attackers and hostile residents threaten to overturn their fragile safety.

A failed surprise attack traps William’s dwindling group on a burning tower while Matilda struggles with grief. Elsewhere, Eleanor seeks acceptance among vampires by fighting the regime that raised her, with both sides risking everything against the Shining City.

As an army approaches the Shining City, Eleanor infiltrates the regime she intends to destroy. Her allies distrust her resemblance to their enemies, but reaching the ruler from within may be their only chance to break the fortress’s power.

With an attack hours away, Eleanor must free prisoners and undermine the Shining City’s defenses without exposing her position. Outside, her allies prepare to strike unaware that friends remain within, making a breakdown in timing potentially disastrous.

As fire spreads through the Shining City, Eleanor faces an infected creature suspended above her prison and Matthew remains trapped elsewhere. Their friends struggle to reach them while an attacking army unknowingly threatens allies still caught behind enemy walls.

After countering the regime’s defensive plans, Eleanor turns toward rescuing Matthew from confinement. Scattered allies fight their way back together while William’s forces enter the city, hoping to reach its ruler and secure peace before another reversal destroys them.

Crossing the wall leaves William’s group separated in a hostile new world, with return impossible until they reunite. Searching for one another also brings them closer to answers about the plague, provided they can first learn the rules that govern survival.