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The Adoration

The Adoration

Demaine, Dillon

Paperback

Series: The Strange Originals, Book 3

Fantasy

ISBN13: 9798274654401
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 15 2025
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Silence is a death sentence. The melody is a contagion. The debt must be paid in blood.

In the neon-soaked shadows of Berlin, legendary guitarist John Whitford faces his ultimate nightmare: absolute silence. Diagnosed with an aggressive autoimmune condition that is fusing his hands into useless claws, John spirals into a haze of whiskey and despair, terrified of becoming a forgotten relic. Drawn by an infrasonic Hum that vibrates in his very marrow, he stumbles into a non-Euclidean alleyway where the laws of physics dissolve. There, he meets the Maestro, an ancient entity offering a miraculous cure. Desperate to save his music, John strikes a Faustian bargain, trading his humanity for hands that will never fail.

John wakes with dexterity beyond human comprehension, but the miracle comes with a terrifying biological price. His beloved guitar, Lucinda, now pulses with a warm, living heat, and a sticky, resinous substance seeps from his pores whenever he plays. As the euphoria of performance gives way to dread, John realizes the music he plays is rewriting reality, infecting his bandmates with a manic obsession and distorting the world around them. He is no longer just a musician; he is a vessel for a cosmic horror, and the Maestro's final composition requires a sacrifice far greater than his soul before the encore ends.

Some songs are never meant to be played; they are meant to be fed.

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