In the seaside town of Summerville, 2038, the virus has mutated past testing. Everyone breathes under surveillance. The ThetaKey, a biometric nasal implant, tracks your vitals, your dreams, even your dissent. SEERNet watches all.
Cardigan, Catshirt, and Spider, three sons of a rogue dentist-turned-restaurant owner, find themselves at the heart of a strange resistance. Their father once pulled teeth; now he pulls threads from an unraveling world. As public health becomes holy law, he invokes a forbidden legacy: occult frequencies, an alias of Aleister Crowley, and an alien being known only as LAM.
What began as quarantine becomes revelation. The Beast isn’t just political. It’s psychic. Ancient. And it wears a mask made of wires.
Part dystopian fable, part techno-occult thriller, Brand of the Beast is a darkly satirical tale of control, awakening, and the cost of true will. It asks the question no antibody can answer.