For eighteen months, five black fields have existed at five sites around the world, resisting every attempt to explain them. Then, at exactly the same time, all five begin to shrink.

Elias Mercer, a former dancer turned sensory scientist, is brought to Orison, a remote research station in the North Atlantic, to investigate a pattern no one there can understand.

There, he is thrust into a problem of timing and perception that draws him deeper into an increasingly intimate experiment-one that entangles him in the mystery of why his own body may matter to the fields, and the even more extraordinary possibility of what might be contacted through them.

The Interval is a queer, erotic, first-contact techno-thriller about science, desire, consent, and the strange intimacy of reaching toward the unknown.