Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows

Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez. Locke & Key, vol 3: Crown of Shadows. 2014. 152p. 978-1600106958.

There is no rest for the Locke children as Zack Wells continues his relentless search for the missing keys. In control of the Shadow key, Zach attacks the Locke siblings, but Kinsey rescues Bode, while Tyler becomes a giant using a giant key and lock Bode had discovered earlier, and he defeats the shadow monsters Zach sent against them by throwing it against the lighthouse.

When told there is writing on the wall of an old cave, near the low tide mark, Kinsey agrees to go with friends to explore what used to be an old Second World War shore battery. After she enters the water and is joined by her friend, the platform they were standing on collapses, throwing the other two people in her group in the water, and it becomes a race to survive.

Meanwhile, their mother is struggling with the violent death of her husband and her rape, and she has turned to the bottle to quell the pain. In doing so, however, she is drifting further away from her children. When she discovers a cabinet that can make something broken whole, she does not hesitate and places her dead husband's funeral urn in there, hoping to return him to life. Unfortunately it does not work, and in the process the urn is broken, revealing yet another key...