The trade paperback becomes available 5/31/22. In Gwendy’s Final Task, master storytellers 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. But where can one hide something from such powerful entities? Now, malignant forces seek to possess the button box, and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation the box represented. Years later, the button box reentered Gwendy’s life. Pushing any of its eight colored buttons promised death and destruction. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.
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