Daisy Jones and the Six

The band's unraveling comes to a head at a show in Chicago on July 12, 1979. Onstage, Billy and Daisy perform "Honeycomb" for the first time in over a year, and Daisy sings the original lyrics Billy wrote years earlier for Camila. The moment cements what has been growing between them for the whole Aurora era: real love, even though neither has acted on it. Backstage after the show, Graham and Karen erupt into a bitter fight over her decision to have an abortion rather than keep their child, and a shaken Graham looks to Billy for support, but Billy is too consumed with the urge to drink to be present for his brother.

Meanwhile, Camila sits with a drug-addled Daisy and tells her plainly that she knows what has been happening between her and Billy, but that Billy will never leave his family. She tells Daisy she should leave the band. Daisy agrees. Billy, for his part, manages to resist the drink that night and decides he needs to step away from touring altogether. Their manager Rod cancels the remaining dates of the tour, and Daisy Jones & the Six break up at the height of their fame, never performing together again.

The frame device of the book is revealed at this point: the unseen interviewer assembling all these oral-history accounts is Julia, Billy and Camila's daughter. She notes with grief that her mother died of heart failure before all of the interviews for this project could be finished. In the years that follow, Daisy gets sober in rehab and eventually adopts two sons. Warren marries an actress, Pete settles into running his own business in Arizona, and Eddie becomes a record producer. Graham and Karen go their separate ways for good; Graham marries and starts a family, while Karen has a long career as a touring keyboardist before retiring in the 1990s. Billy spends the rest of his life writing songs for other pop artists and living quietly with Camila and their three daughters, staying married to her until her death.

The book closes on an email dated November 5, 2012, written by Camila to be delivered to her daughters. In it, she asks them to give Billy Daisy's phone number, effectively giving her blessing, from beyond her death, for the two of them to finally reunite — noting that, at the very least, the two of them owe each other one last song.