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The freezing summer turns into a suffocating winter. Dale Stewart thought he was finally free from the darkness as a child, but he couldn't have been more wrong. The life of the once well-respected university lecturer and novelist has been derailed: his wife has left him, his career is in ruins, and he even attempts suicide after a disastrous relationship. He decides to leave everything behind and return to the scene of his childhood, the crumbling remains of the once thriving small town of Elm Haven, where he hopes to find peace. He rents his old friend's house to write his first serious novel, which happens to deal with the events of the summer four decades before. But by moving into a long-abandoned house on the edge of the town - where his best friend, Duane McBride, who died a terrible death in the freezing summer of 1960, once lived - he only adds to his mistakes. Because he is not alone in the house: he was followed here by his own entranced demons, who are preparing for something terrible. And the snow is slowly burying everything under itself...

In the continuation of Freezing Summer, which captures the end of innocent childhood and the horror of growing up, cult horror writer Dan Simmons tells a powerful story about the horrors of adulthood, the bleak wasteland of failures and regrets.