Ava returns to the night market after twenty-eight agonizing days of withdrawal, but this time she sees the horror beneath the wonder—customers connected by silver threads to a massive web, tended by an ancient entity called the Collector. Despite Kieran's desperate warnings and his revelation that he's trapped as the market's unwilling servant, Ava trades her sense of home for nostalgia honey that contains writhing memories.

As she experiences concentrated perfection from her past, she feels the memories being consumed by something else, and a silver thread emerges from her chest, connecting her permanently to the Collector's web. Now marked as property by a vast predatory presence that speaks directly into her mind, Ava flees back to the ordinary world—but the whispers follow her home, and she realizes that something is coming to collect what it's owed, whether she returns to the market or not.

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