He knows that if he doesn't kill her she will follow him right to Cassie and the others. He stays with her for a while to try to act like he's on her side while recuperating from his injuries and come up with a plan to get away from her. Grace asks who Cassie is as he was mumbling her name but he doesn't want to talk about her since he knows Grace despises humans. The book switches to Evan's POV, and after collapsing while trying to get to Cassie after the explosion he wakes up in a cabin with a woman named Grace, who turns out to be someone Evan had met when he was younger after he was first 'awoken' in his body and he found out she was an Other too. She hears a helicopter coming and runs out to meet it knowing it's the enemy and they will take them back to camp just so that they will save Teacup.

Teacup takes off after her and when she sneaks up on Ringer, Ringer thinks it's a Silencer and shoots her.

Ringer says there is a network of caves not far from their location that they could stay in for the winter and she leaves to go scout it out to see if any other survivors are there. They all know they can't stay there as Vosch and his army of brainwashed kids will be looking for them, along with the fact that winter is coming and they will freeze and starve to death where they are now. This book picks up a week or so after the group initially escaped Vosch's camp, with them hiding out in an abandoned hotel while Cassie waits for Evan, although he is believed by the other group members to be dead.

The 5th wave book does evan die