It's Christmas Eve, 1973, and Paul and Cellina Farrell are in Paris for the holiday. They think Simone is vacationing with her friend's family in Florida. But Simone didn't go to Florida. She didn't go anywhere. Sitting alone in the great room of the dark mansion on Winnetka Road, she has big plans for the night with the row of prescription bottles on the table beside her-narcotics ordered from the pharmacy in her mother's name.
Simone is done with the nightly assaults of the gray, done feeling powerless and living in despair, done with life.
As she looks out upon the picturesque snow-covered landscape behind the house, slowly taking pills and listening to The Moody Blues, she sees a figure dart across the yard, stop and fall into the snow. Simone stands and cautiously walks to the window for a better look.
The final reckoning with the gray has begun.
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Book 3 ends with a complete resolution. The story continues in Books 4, 5 and 6. Book 6 is the end of the series.