He Who Knocketh

Faith opens doors, even when some should stay shut.

In the desolate town of Dry Creek, two missionaries arrive on bicycles and scripture. Elder Nathan Cole is calm, charismatic, and utterly devoted. Elder James Parker is young, uncertain, and beginning to suspect that not all prayers reach heaven.

When an isolated widow is found dead after a late-night visit, Detective Sarah Holt is sent to investigate. Once a believer herself, Holt walked away from the church—and from faith—after her son vanished years ago. But as more bodies surface, each accompanied by a single verse and three deliberate knocks, Holt begins to realize this case isn’t about one man’s madness. It’s about something older. Something that has been waiting to be answered.

Every clue leads deeper into a labyrinth of scripture and silence: a journal titled The Book of the Cleansed, a burned orchard marked with ritual circles, a missionary whose faith is indistinguishable from delusion.
And through it all, the same whisper:

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.”

He Who Knocketh is a psychological and theological thriller that blurs the line between belief and obsession. In the spirit of Under the Banner of Heaven, Silence of the Lambs, and The Exorcist, L. Desmond delivers a haunting descent into the dark heart of devotion—where every answered prayer demands a price, and every door hides a witness.