As the silver thread pulls Ava deeper into the market's reality, she begins manifesting there during daylight hours while slowly fading from the normal world. Discovering that Kieran has been trapped for sixty-three years after a failed attempt to save his dying fiancée, Ava learns the true horror of the Collector's methods—it doesn't just take what people trade, it continues feeding on them until nothing remains.

When reality itself begins bleeding between dimensions, Kieran proposes a desperate gambit: instead of trying to escape the connection, they could share it, creating a bond the Collector has never encountered. Their choice to merge their silver threads creates something powerful enough to begin unraveling the web, but it also breaks the barriers keeping the Collector contained to the new moon. Now free to hunt in the real world, an ancient and terrible presence is preparing to reclaim what it considers stolen property, and Ava and Kieran have become the bridge it will use to invade reality itself.

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