In the authors of the brand new York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators from the #1 international podcast from the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who would like desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power from the Smiling God.

Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the city of Evening Vale. Doing work for Carlos, the town’s best scientist, she depends on fact and logic as her about any of it Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel guiding concepts. But all that is put into query when Carlos gives her a special assignment looking into a mystical rumbling in the desert wasteland beyond town. This analysis leads her towards the Joyous Congregation from the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most dedicated members. Captured between her beliefs in the ultimate power of research and her developing appeal to Darryl, she starts to suspect the Congregation is certainly planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everybody in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must seek out common surface between their completely different world views as they are faced with the Congregation’s darkest and most awful secret.