In this third installment of The Widow Maker Trilogy, the sun has started to set on the final breaths of the life of ex-prostitue, ex-drug addict, homeless old lady Sheila Parker. She struggles through a weakened immune system and a malaria like fever while she finishes telling the dynamic account of Carlos MacIntyre, who has awoken from his slumber in the Bayous of Louisiana. After the hunt had begun for him behind the trail of dead bodies he left in the aftermath of "The Rise of the Widow Maker," he has returned so that he might protect his work - the legacy of the Light of Death Himself, The Widow Maker - which was being mocked by copycat murderers.
Through her blurred vision, night sweats and confused thoughts, Old Lady Parker gives the final chapter of her chronicle and passes her mantle on to another, so that she might finally be released from her lot of telling Carlos''s cursed story, night after night, for all times in this life.