A day meant to celebrate the ascension of the new Gunslingers in Gilead begins with a murder and ends in catastrophe.

Following the complete destruction of Gilead, the six pillars of reality holding all of existence together begin to crumble, and Roland Deschain and his beleagured ka-tet must stop the Crimson King from returning the world to chaos.

"In a saloon in the town of Tull, the last gunslinger is approached by a bizarre figure that has a message for him. The message is terrifying. What's worse, it is delivered by a dead man named Nort whose corpse was animated to serve this very purpose. And that's only the beginning of the horrors awaiting the gunslinger in this strange place deep within Mid-World as Roland Deschain continues his quest for the Man in Black that has become his obsession."--Amazon.com....

The mentally handicapped young Sheemie possesses the power to shatter the very Beams of the Dark Tower, but Sheemie doesn't want to destroy reality. He is in the prison of Devar-Toi, and all he wants is his friends to rescue him. Roland Deschain is coming for him even now, but Sheemie must evade animal-headed guards and the monstrous Great Old Ones while he waits! Plus: traveling through the Desatoya Mountains, Roland comes across a haunted camp....