The Benediction Cycle · Book 1

The Black Benediction

When a signal speaks back, it doesn’t bring salvation—it brings scripture.

Published 7 October 2025

Deep in the asteroid belt, the survey vessel Peregrine detects something impossible: a whisper buried in the static of deep space. A pulse. A pattern. A voice.

At first, it’s just noise. Then the message begins to write.

Symbols appear on screens and condensation. Words carve themselves into steel. Every new verse rewrites the ship’s systems—and the people inside them.

Now the crew faces a terrible choice: silence the voice… or join the choir.

The Black Benediction is a claustrophobic blend of Alien, Event Horizon, and Annihilation—a cosmic-horror novella about faith, infection, and the peril of being heard.

In the dark between worlds, belief is a contagion. And the Benediction has only just begun.