From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to
Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the
same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and
science, the growing relationship between two young people who want
desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the
Smiling God.
Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for
Carlos, the town's top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her
guiding principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos
gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in
the desert wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to
the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its
most committed members. Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power
of science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect
the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of
everyone in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground
between their very different world views as they are faced with the
Congregation's darkest and most terrible secret.
