The Worst Is Yet to Come

By: Lundy, Trish

From the author of The One That Got Away with Murder comes a fresh YA mystery about a girl who survives a murder attempt and the boy who finds her bleeding on the side of the road as they team up to find out who is targeting teen girls in their small, Rust Belt community. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen M. McManus.

High school might be officially over, but the real nightmare is just beginning. When two best friends are attacked on graduation night, only one of them makes it out alive.

Left for dead at an abandoned house but determined to find out who killed her best friend, Rose is rescued by former high school quarterback and heartthrob, Jake, who becomes an unexpected ally. . . and maybe something more. But when she learns that seventeen years ago, another girl suffered the exact same fate in the exact same place, she wonders if a murderer might be back with a vengeance. . . or is a copycat killer on the loose?

Time is running out, because whoever the killer is, they're eager to correct their biggest mistake: letting Rose live. As Rose follows the trail of evidence, she's led down a path of horrors that threatens to expose the insidious secrets at the heart of her community--secrets the killer will do anything to keep quiet.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250407087
• ISBN13: 9781250407085
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary