For sculptor Elias Thorne, every work of art is a wound. Since the violent death of his wife, his hands have given shape to the scream that lives inside his head. His monstrous creations of steel and clay are the only things that bring him peace.But his sculptures are no longer just metal and mud. They are becoming antennas.Whispers from a reality of impossible geometry and living pain begin to bleed into his world. He sees beings of terrible beauty-the Marked-who offer lessons in a new, flesh-based physics. While his psychiatrist brother tries to medicate the visions away, a mysterious historian arrives with a terrifying message: Elias is not going mad. He is receiving a signal.Tempted by a vision of his lost wife promising a world without sorrow, Elias makes a choice. He opens a door that should have remained sealed forever, inviting a horror that wears the face of love but hungers for our world.Now, hunted by a parasitic monster and a shadowy organization sworn to cleanse reality, Elias must embrace the madness that spawned his art. For he is no longer just an artist. He is a gateway. And the scream is only the beginning.