Infinity

Overview

Infinity closes out Rachel Ward's trilogy about a trio bound together by an uncanny and unwanted gift: the ability to look into a stranger's eyes and know the date they will die. Adam, Sarah, and Mia have gone into hiding, trying to build something resembling an ordinary life after their secret became public knowledge and made them objects of fascination, suspicion, and fear.

That fragile peace collapses when Mia makes a choice that trades her own version of the power for something new and far less predictable. Rather than settling her, the exchange destabilizes the group's already precarious existence, drawing renewed attention from people who want to understand, exploit, or eliminate what she can now do.

The novel follows the three as they try to stay ahead of that scrutiny, forced to reckon with how much control they actually have over abilities none of them asked for, and what it costs to protect each other once hiding is no longer an option.

Closing a Trilogy Built on an Unwanted Gift

Across the series, Ward uses the premise of foreknowledge of death less as a supernatural gimmick than as a lens for examining fear, stigma, and the burden of knowing things other people can't. Adam, Sarah, and Mia are never comfortable with what they can do; their power isolates them, invites exploitation, and repeatedly puts them at odds with institutions and strangers who see them as either a threat or a tool.

Infinity pushes that tension further by introducing instability into the one constant the trilogy had relied on: the rules of the ability itself. By making Mia's new power less certain than the original one, Ward keeps the series from resolving into easy comfort, instead closing on the idea that survival and trust are harder-won than any single power could guarantee.

Why Infinity Has Been Challenged

Objections to this book have most often centered on its suitability for middle-grade and early teen readers, the audience most likely to encounter it through school libraries built around the series' younger protagonists. Critics in these cases have argued that a story organized around the ability to foresee death, paired with the fugitive danger the characters live under, introduces themes of mortality and violence that they consider too heavy or frightening for that age group. Some have also pointed to the series' darker tonal shifts in its final volume as a reason to restrict access rather than leave the choice to individual readers or families. The book has been formally challenged in one state and one district tracked in this catalog, with reviewers ultimately weighing those concerns against the trilogy's broader standing as a work of speculative fiction for young adults.