The virus is about to take its toll, and Rain is desperately searching for answers. After being harmed by Vaughn, Rain finds an unexpected ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor named Reed. She finds refuge in his dilapidated house, but the people she left behind refuse to stay in the past. While Raine is haunted by memories of Gabriel, Cecile decides to take her side - even though Linden's feelings still stand between them. Meanwhile, Rowan becomes increasingly involved in the underground resistance, forcing Raine to go to him before he does anything. irreparable. But along the way, she discovers something that has troubling implications for her future—and a connection to a past that her parents never explained to her. In the gripping final installment of Lauren de Stefano's The Phantom Garden trilogy, everything Rain has come to believe is true will be... irretrievably destroyed.