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In Oak Haven, the price of happiness is your soul. And the entry fee is your surrender."
Detective Luna Loid is a rising star in the capital, but she's just been handed a death sentence: a transfer to the pristine, sun-drenched coastal town of Oak Haven. Her mission is to solve the ritualistic murders of two schoolgirls, but the town doesn't want her help.
Oak Haven is perfect. Too perfect. The streets are clean, the crime rate is zero, and everyone-from the Mayor to the beat cops-wears a smile that looks like it was carved out of marble.
But behind the white picket fences and the friendly waves lies a rhythmic, subsonic secret. A frequency from the Deep is broadcasting through every speaker in the city, and it's rewiring the residents' brains. When the "Wellness Chime" rings, the citizens of Oak Haven enter a trance of ecstatic, mechanical devotion-a ritual of pleasure and prayer that leaves them hollowed out and "synced."
Now, the "Cthulhu Protocol" has a new target. Luna wasn't sent here to solve a case; she was sent to be the next Sacrifice. As the three-month lunar cycle counts down, Luna finds her willpower eroding. Her body is no longer her own. Every pulse of the green light, every vibration of the mantra, draws her closer to the obsidian dais where the elite gather to peak in the Master's name.
She came to find a killer. She'll stay to become the Vessel.