Devotion

Technical Sergeant Gabriel Sanderson was trained to hear everything. At a remote desert listening post, he expected background static, enemy chatter, maybe the hum of distant satellites. What he found was different: a perfect 63 Hz signal-mathematical, invasive, and impossible to explain. The military called it an anomaly. Gabriel knew better. The frequency wasn't malfunction. It was communication.
Discharged and forgotten, Gabriel becomes Father Gabriel Sorell, leader of The Listening House-a gathering where addicts, seekers, and outcasts discover the same resonance that shattered his life. Beneath their voices and visions lies something vast: a ship made of mathematics, a presence waiting for receivers who can prepare humanity for harmonic integration. But not everyone is listening by choice.
Dr. Naomi Reyes, an ethnomusicologist searching for her missing sister, infiltrates the Arizona compound where Gabriel's followers are building a chamber tuned to the signal. Inside its walls, silence isn't empty-it's alive. Frequencies shape minds, bleed bodies, and reveal glimpses of a future where human consciousness is no longer bound by flesh. Is it salvation-or surrender?As Gabriel's visions deepen and Naomi's investigation closes in, both are caught in a struggle between revelation and ruin.
The signal has chosen its receivers. The pattern is spreading. Devotion is a chilling work of science fiction and psychological horror-where cult obsession meets alien contact, and the thin line between transcendence and annihilation begins to hum. Fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, Alex Garland's Devs, or stories of first contact with a dark twist will find themselves drawn into the frequencies.
The signal calls. The pattern awaits.