L’Illusion

King And Chizmar Join Forces Again With A Powerful Stand-alone Novel That Is Also The Final Chapter In The Gwendy Trilogy. 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. 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. 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? Gwendy's Final Task Is A Wildly Suspenseful And At The Same Time Deeply Moving Novel In Which 'horror Giants' (publishers Weekly) Stephen King And Richard Chizmar Take Us On A Journey From Castle Rock To Another Famous Cursed Maine City To The Mf-1 Space Station, Where Gwendy Must Execute A Secret Mission To Save The World. And, Maybe, All Worlds.

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A deliciously dark twist on Romeo and Juliet' Natasha Ngan, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Paper and FireIn glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens . . .The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city in chaos.Juliette Cai is the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang - a network of criminals far above the law.Roma Montagov is the prodigal son of her greatest rivals, the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. He is also Juliette's first love . . . and first betrayal.When a deadly madness strikes gangsters on both sides, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, and a monster in the shadows. And as the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns - and grudges - aside and work together.For if they can't stop this mayhem, there will be no city left to rule.Filled with romance, intrigue and betrayal, this heart-stopping fantasty retelling of Romeo and Juliet is perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Descendant of the Crane.Praise for Chloe Gong'Heady, smart, and vicious' Tessa Gratton, author of The Queens of Innis Lear'Deliciously dark' Natasha Ngan, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Paper and Fire'Dark and beautiful' Emiko Jean, author of Empress of all Seasons'A terrific, deliciously unputdownable read' June Hur, author of The Silence of Bones