At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp

At the End of Everything

Marieke Nijkamp

Sourcebooks · Paperback · January 6, 2026

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends comes another heartbreaking, emotional and timely page-turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Who it’s for
A tense, immersive survival read about trust, isolation, and who gets left behind.
Genres
YA Apocalyptic Fiction, YA Dystopian Fiction, YA Survival Stories
Published
Sourcebooks, January 6, 2026

About this book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends comes another heartbreaking, emotional and timely page-turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist. Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day…they don't show up.

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But when the teens band together to make a break from the facility, they encounter soldiers outside the gates. There's a rapidly spreading infectious disease outside, and no one can leave their houses or travel without a permit. Which means that they're stuck at Hope. And this time, no one is watching out for them at all. As supplies quickly dwindle and a deadly plague tears through their ranks, the group has to decide whom among them they can trust and figure out how they can survive in a world that has never wanted them in the first place. Also by Marieke Nijkamp: This Is Where It Ends Even If We Break Before I Let Go Praise for Marieke Nijkamp: "Immersive and captivating. Thrilling in every sense of the word."—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us is Lying on Even If We Break "With exceptional handling of everything from mental illness to guilt and a riveting, magic realist narrative, this well wrought, haunting novel will stick with readers long after the final page."—Booklist on Before I Let Go *STARRED REVIEW* "A compelling, brutal story of an unfortunately all-too familiar situation: a school shooting. Nijkamp portrays the events thoughtfully, recounting fifty-four intense minutes of bravery, love, and loss."—BookRiot on This Is Where It Ends

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A tense, immersive survival read about trust, isolation, and who gets left behind.

Come here for

  • A locked-in survival story shaped by distrust and dwindling supplies
  • Teenagers facing a world-wide crisis with no one watching out for them

Expect

  • A treatment center cut off by a deadly outbreak
  • Pressure that builds as the group weighs whom to trust

Where it sits

YA Apocalyptic Fiction57%
YA Dystopian Fiction56%
YA Survival Stories52%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Survival Stories
  • YA Illness & Disease Stories
  • Thrillers & Suspense
Authors
Marieke Nijkamp
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Published
January 6, 2026
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Survival Stories