Claire and Tomás decide to help their trapped friends and family, even if it puts their own lives in danger. She and her teammates are running outside in the frigid January air when the first shots are fired. Claire, Tyler’s ex-girlfriend, has a last-minute track practice this morning. Tomás, Sylvia’s twin brother, is the school prankster, which is why he isn’t in the auditorium for the assembly, but is sneaking around the school instead. She’s counting on her girlfriend Sylvia to come with her, but Sylvia is torn between her dreams of the future and the growing need to stay behind in Opportunity and care for her ailing mother. She’ll be happy to be far away from her abusive father. A lone gunman uses this occasion to lock the auditorium doors, turning the space into his own personal “shooting range.” Tyler Browne, town outcast, has a few scores to settle.Īutumn Browne, Tyler’s younger sister, wants to leave Opportunity, Alabama, behind, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and dance on stages around the world.
Told in multiple points of view, the novel illustrates the harrowing and gory details of a 54-minute attack on a small-town American high school.Įveryone at Opportunity High School is gathered in the auditorium for the principal’s beginning-of-term assembly. “Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun,” reads the tagline to This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp.
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