[In Progress] [63,000] [Sci-fi/Thriller] The Frisson Trilogy: Book 1, Resonance
Blake Calloway is a thirty-eight-year-old logistics coordinator with ADHD, a beer gut, and a guitar he hasn't touched in six years. When his wife and daughter vanish from a New Orleans park on an ordinary Saturday morning, he discovers that the physiological response to music he's had his whole life — the one that made him feel broken and too sensitive for the world — is actually a weaponizable energy. And that an ancient pre-human intelligence has been suppressing human creativity for ten thousand years, and is about to do it again.
This is a story about a man who spent his whole life being told he was wrong for everything, discovering he was built exactly right for one specific thing. It's got ancient mythology, Frisson energy weapons with color-coded combat mechanics, a blues guitarist in his sixties who lives on a Louisiana bayou houseboat, a physicist who bought the most important document in human history for twelve dollars at an estate sale, and a sealed cave beneath Red Rocks Amphitheatre that can only be opened with the right song.
Looking for readers who enjoy emotionally grounded speculative fiction with strong character work. If you've ever felt like music hits you differently than it hits other people, this book was written for you.
Content: Some violence, emotional themes around family separation and grief. Nothing graphic.