Chapter 13 Summary

Chapter Thirteen begins with Zoe dreaming and continues as we learn that Lorraine is sleeping over for the last time before she departs, and Zoe and her father talk honestly about the effect of her mother Anne Sutcliff's illness on their lives. It ends with Simon revealing to Zoe what must be done to put a stop to his evil brother Christopher and the plan that he has put in place.

Zoe's dream is a strange and surreal one in which she sees her mother being taken away by ambulance, and she feels the need to give her mother a painting quickly before she goes. The house starts to fall down around her, preventing her from seeing her mother but, in the final moments of the dream her friend arrives and reveals that her dream mother is only going to Oregon and not...