A dangerous cult has established itself in Los Angeles. Though publicly masquerading on social media as a safe haven for the outcasts of society, it more closely resembles the cartels across the border. And at the center of it all, a vicious and enigmatic leader captivating the young minds of the lost and the indignant.

Missing children, a mysterious drug bringing intense highs and terrifying nightmares, hacked up corpses in the streets, and a strange word found in alleyways, sewers, and murder scenes...

Ereshk

Former police officer Darren Barlow brushed up against this new insanity and now lives in disgrace after causing the death of an undercover federal agent at a drug deal gone bad. Nobody saw what he saw. What unimaginable cruelty he still sees in his nightmares. A call from an old friend about a missing girl brings him reluctantly back into the abyss, and directly into the sights of a vile, hateful false prophet with an army of impressionable psychopaths hanging on his every word.

But even as creatures with violence in our DNA, perpetuating an endless cycle of hunger, greed, and degradation, there is nothing to prepare us for what courses beneath the skin of reality. Playing on our baser urges for fun, working our desires like puppets.

While the God we know remains silent, something whispers in his absence...