Elena survived the mirror.Now it wants to be paid.Marked by the thing behind the glass, Elena returns to Beth Haven to end what her brother started - and learns the oldest truth in town: every "one life " the old woman ever demanded was a mothers ransom.Three centuries ago, Agnes lost her boy to the winter, and she has been trying to buy him back ever since, It never works.It will never work, but she will never stop asking.To break the chain, Elena must do what no one has ever done before, starve the hunger, silence the song, and pay a price no one can name.Meow 3 is the darkest book in the Meow series -the truth about Agnes, the truth about the book, and the truth about what the black kitten really is. Some doors, once opened, can never be closed.