<p><b>King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy.</b><br><br>When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction.<br><br>Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy''s life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster.<br><br>With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer''s Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?<br><br><i>