


The police investigating the hit and run accident claimed they had no witnesses or video footage. Shortly after Gwendy was given the box, her husband, Ryan, was killed. He gave her instructions that told how to dispose of it. He told her that she needed to dispose of the box because it was becoming too dangerous. It was while Gwendy was in the midst of campaigning for the Senate that Farris brought the box back to her. Even though Gwendy was ready to step aside from politics, she was persuaded to run for a Senate seat in Maine against a man who supported lies and ideas that would harm the country. The chapters that are set in the present are interspersed with chapters set in the past to give the reader background. Gwendy is onboard as the first United States senator to ride to the MF-1 space station.

The novel begins in the present tense with the crew of the Eagle-19 Heavy launching into space. She believes the people who want to save the box and use it to harm others intentionally set the fire when they discovered the box was not there. During her trip into space, Gwendy is informed that her house caught fire.

Soon afterward, Gwendy begins suffering the debilitating symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer's. First, her husband, Ryan, is killed in a freak hit and run accident when Gwendy is campaigning for the Senate. Once the box is in Gwendy's possession, she encounters evil forces that seem determined to keep her from achieving her goal. Farris blames the COVID pandemic on one proprietor's misuse of the box. Since Gwendy last had the box in her possession, it has increased in its power to do evil. Gwendy is tasked by Richard Farris to dispose of the box in outer space, the only place he believes the box can go to keep the world safe from it. Written by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, the horror novel describes Gwendy Peterson's last encounter with the button box. Gwendy's Final Task is the third installment of the Gwendy's Button Box trilogy. It has been twenty years since Richard Farris relieved her of the button box, but now it is back and she must face overwhelming obstacles before she can destroy it once and for all. Set primarily in the future year of 2026 on the MF-1 Space Station, it revolves around the eponymous Gwendy Peterson, a sixty-four-year-old United States Senator from Maine. Previous installments include Gwendy's Button Box and Gwendy's Magic Feather. This is the third installment of the Gwendy's Button Box trilogy. Gwendy's Final Task is an adventure novel by American authors Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.
