Templar Chronicles Omnibus #2

WHEN WINNING THE BATTLE MEANS LOSING EVERYTHING ELSE.

The first three books of the Templar Chronicles showed you how Cade Williams became a monster hunter. Books 4-6 show you what happens when hunting monsters turns you into one.

After storming the gates of Hell to rescue Gabrielle's soul and defeating the Adversary in brutal combat, Cade Williams should be celebrating victory. Instead, he's a broken shell of a man, his thirst for vengeance finally quenched but his spirit shattered into pieces. The Echo Team has paid for victory in blood and scars. The war with the Ch'iang Shih has left the Templar Order devastated.

And in that moment of weakness, the real nightmare begins.

This omnibus collection delivers three interconnected novels of escalating horror, where every victory comes with a terrible cost, every enemy strikes at the heart rather than the sword-arm, and the line between hero and monster blurs until it disappears entirely.

THIS OMNIBUS COLLECTION INCLUDES:

BOOK 4: INFERNAL GAMES
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer still…

The sadistic Necromancer, Simon Logan—the death-mage who once raised armies of the dead—orchestrates a daring prison break and vanishes into the night. Newly promoted Captain Riley and the reformed Echo Team are given the job of hunting him down. Dead or alive.

But the Necromancer isn't running. He's playing a different game entirely.

Rather than waiting for Echo to find him, Logan takes the battle straight to them—luring broken, haunted Cade Williams from his sanctuary and stealing the physical form of his wife, Gabrielle. A woman caught between life and death. A soul Cade literally invaded Hell to rescue. It's perhaps the one act that could rouse Cade from his grey haze of despair.

And the Necromancer is about to learn what happens when you wake a sleeping monster.

As Cade ruthlessly tracks Logan through shadow-realms and back alleys, through necropolis cities of the dead and neon-lit streets of the living, one burning question haunts him: What could the Necromancer possibly want with a half-dead woman and the man who traveled to Hell and back to save her? Is this revenge? A twisted experiment?

Or something far, far worse?

The answers are buried deep. The body count is rising. Time is running out. And Cade Williams isn't fighting for duty anymore—he's fighting for love. When a Templar warrior fights for love, Heaven and Hell both step aside.

BOOK 5: JUDGMENT DAY
The time for a reckoning has come…

Cade's worst nightmare explodes into brutal reality when the Necromancer's black magick not only shatters the infernal chains binding the Adversary but allows the ancient evil to possess Gabrielle's body. When the Templars storm the ritual chamber and put a bullet through the Necromancer's skull, the Adversary—wearing Gabrielle's stolen flesh—sprouts massive wings and launches into darkness, laughing.

That's when Cade's world truly falls apart.

Branded a traitor by the Templar Order for his cooperation with the sorcerer, Cade finds himself hunted by the very brothers-in-arms who once fought beside him. His former allies now have orders to bring him in, dead or alive. Meanwhile, he's working feverishly to track down the Adversary, racing to rip his wife's soul free from the creature's stranglehold before it's too late.

The exhaustion is bone-deep. The odds are impossible. Resources are gone. The team is scattered. He's running on rage, desperation, and fading hope that some part of Gabrielle still survives inside the monster.

Just when he thinks things can't get worse, Cade makes contact with an entity known only as the Forsaken One—a being older and more terrifying than anything he's faced before. From this ancient creature, he finally discovers the answers to questions that have haunted him since the Adversary first carved its way into his life.

But these aren't the answers he wanted. They're the answers that will break him.

The revelations reshape everything. The cost is higher than imagined. And the final confrontation demands he sacrifice pieces of himself he didn't know he had left to lose. This time, the enemy wears the face of the woman he loves. This time, victory might look exactly like defeat.

BOOK 6: FALL OF NIGHT
The battle is far from over...

*Death is just the beginning—and the darkness rising from within might be deadlier than any demon.*

Cade Williams defeated the Adversary at a terrible cost. Gabrielle is dead. His reputation lies in ruins. Unable to bear the weight of his failure, Cade walks into the Beyond—the nightmare realm between life and death—and vanishes.

But Cade's war isn't over. And neither is Gabrielle's.

Six months later, Gabrielle's consciousness awakens in the body of Anna Rodriguez, a brain-dead Marine lying in a Mexican hospital. Trapped in a stranger's flesh with fractured memories, she knows one thing with absolute certainty: the Adversary survived. Something calamitous is coming. And she must find Cade before the darkness consumes them all.

Meanwhile, Captain Riley discovers the horrifying truth: the Adversary didn't just survive—it triumphed. The ritual meant to destroy it instead allowed it to possess seven archangels, stealing divine bodies and turning Heaven's warriors into demonic horrors. Now disguised within the Templar hierarchy, the Adversary uses conqueror worms—psychic parasites harvested from nightmare realms—to infiltrate the Order from within. Two-thirds of the Templars are already possessed, minds enslaved, bodies turned into puppets.

And Cade? He's trapped in the Beyond, where every day brings him closer to Falling—to becoming the very monster he's spent his life fighting.

After a harrowing escape from Mexico through streets haunted by reanimated corpses, Gabrielle finds Riley and the last handful of loyal Templars making their stand. Together with Uriel, an ancient archangel, they devise a desperate plan: Gabrielle will open a portal between worlds while Riley and his men hold off the Adversary's possessed army long enough for her to rescue Cade.

When parasites burrow into minds and former brothers become enemies, thirty loyal knights must hold the line against two hundred possessed soldiers—or watch the world fall to demonic conquest.

The siege is brutal. Wave after wave of possessed Templars—men Riley once called friends—assault their position. As Gabrielle opens the portal and prepares to step between worlds, she watches Riley make his last stand, sees the grenade bounce to his feet, witnesses the explosion that may have claimed her friend's life.

But she can't stop now. Cade is waiting. The darkness is rising. And the only way forward is through Hell itself.

This three-book collection delivers everything readers crave in psychological supernatural thrillers:

**✓ DEVASTATING ESCALATION:** From personal vendetta (Book 4) to cosmic conspiracy (Book 5) to full-scale demonic invasion (Book 6), each novel raises the stakes beyond what seemed possible.

**✓ BROKEN HERO ARC:** Watch Cade transform from shattered veteran to desperate hunter to something that might not be human anymore—and decide if that's a tragedy or necessity.

**✓ PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE:** These aren't just physical battles. The Necromancer plays mind games. The Adversary possesses Gabrielle. Conqueror worms corrupt from within. Every enemy strikes at the soul.

**✓ GABRIELLE AS PROTAGONIST:** Book 6 shifts focus, making Gabrielle the hero of her own story—waking in a dead Marine's body, fighting her way back from death itself, and becoming the warrior Cade needs.

**✓ CONSEQUENCES THAT MATTER:** Cade's victory in Book 3 comes with costs that echo through three more novels. Gabrielle dies. The Order turns on him. Allies become enemies. Nothing stays won.

**✓ COSMIC-SCALE REVELATIONS:** The Forsaken One sequence, the seven possessed archangels, the true nature of the Adversary—answers that reshape the entire series mythology.

**✓ TEAM FRACTURED:** Riley becomes a captain and leads his own battles. Echo Team is scattered. Cade is hunted. The brotherhood is broken, and putting it back together might be impossible.

**✓ BODY HORROR:** Possession, parasites, reanimated corpses, souls in wrong bodies—this trilogy goes dark and visceral in ways the first three books only hinted at.

FEATURES:

• **Over 800 pages** of psychological supernatural warfare

• **Shifting perspectives** - Cade, Riley, and Gabrielle all take protagonist roles

• **Necromancer as antagonist** - Simon Logan's twisted games

• **The Adversary's true plan** - Revelation of the conspiracy

• **Conqueror worms** - Psychic parasites that possess Templars

• **Body-swapping horror** - Gabrielle in a dead Marine's body

• **Templar civil war** - Possessed brothers vs. loyal knights

• **The Forsaken One** - Ancient entity older than the Adversary

• **The Beyond** - Nightmare realm where Cade is trapped

• **Archangel possession** - Seven divine warriors corrupted

• **Siege warfare** - 30 loyal knights vs. 200 possessed soldiers

• **Portal between worlds** - Gabrielle's desperate rescue mission