Alexander Hernandez-Maxwell

Joey, an author struggling to cope after her brilliant scientist husband, Ben, tragically dies. When Joey wakes one morning to find Ben making pancakes in their kitchen—as if nothing ever happened—her reality begins to fracture.

A small-time drug trafficker attempts to rescue a young girl who has been kidnapped by a zealous preacher while battling a manipulative Cicada-like entity that preys on the desperation of his impoverished Appalachian town.