It devours! - Joseph Fink

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale
and the #1 podcast of the same name,
comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the
growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to
trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God.
Nilanjana
Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos,
the town's top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding
principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a
special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert
wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous
Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most
committed members. Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of
science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect the
Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of
everyone in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground
between their very different world views as they are faced with the
Congregation's darkest and most terrible secret.