by Stephen King
First published 2022
Gwendy Peterson has built a successful career as both writer and politician. Her comfortable life shatters when Richard Farris arrives at her door wearing his signature black bowler hat. He carries the control panel that has grown more powerful and harder to resist over the years. Farris tells Gwendy there is only one way to destroy the device permanently. She must travel to the international space station. The mission seems challenging enough, but the real threat emerges aboard the spacecraft itself. One crew member knows about the control panel and will stop at nothing to steal it from her. Gwendy faces urgent questions with time running out. Who is this enemy? How did he learn about the device? What does he plan to do with its power? The answers will determine whether Gwendy can complete her final task or whether the control panel will fall into the wrong hands.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, thriller, 21st-century
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, high-stakes
Setting: International Space Station
Period: Contemporary
408 pages · Hardcover · Cemetery Dance Publications
Content warnings: violence