TheUnveiling

The sky did not change. Our eyes did.

For all of human history, a veil has hidden the spiritual realm from human sight. Then an artificial intelligence discovers the veil is measurable, and a scientist who does not believe in ghosts opens a window that can never be closed.

Overnight, everyone on earth can see the demons that were always there.

Humanity declares war, and for six months, humanity wins. But an enemy older than time does not lose ground it held for ten thousand years unless it is harvesting something, and no one thinks to ask what, until the guns simply stop being permitted.

In the Lake Erie snow belt, widowed lineman Daniel Reyes holds the last warm room in Painesville: a church basement, sixty survivors, a pastor, a stray dog who watches the door, and the two children he promised his dying wife he would raise. As the armies fail, the bread runs short, and the world's institutions are brought to nothing one by one, Daniel learns what the machine tried to tell everyone from the first day: this war was never ours to win. It was ours to be faithful through.

Independence Day meets the Book of Revelation: a literary apocalyptic debut for readers of The Sparrow, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and This Present Darkness. Cosmic in scale, blue-collar in soul, honest about the cost, and unashamed of the hope.