Sergeant jordan stone and his crack forensic team are called in to examine the site, to hunt for the perpetrators of this horrific act. But the discovery of a survivor--a child of ten--will shatter all the team knows about life and death. Among the crumbling bones of dead kings, something hoary and murderous stirs out of the ancient past, lurching forward to claim vengeance on those still living.
Included with this thrilling story is a sneak peek at The Blood Gospel, where the further exploits of Sergeant Stone and his team will be revealed.
Blood Brothers: A Short Story Exclusive Order of the Sanguines Series
From new york times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell comes a dark story of murder, mystery, and a brotherhood steeped in a bloody past. As a young reporter, arthur crane exposed the secrets behind the Orchid Killer, a cult murderer from the late '60s whose crimes blackened the end of the Summer of Love.
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Blood Infernal: The Order of the Sanguines Series
. Blood infernalas an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries: The shackles of Lucifer have been loosened, and his Chalice remains lost.
It will take the light of all three to forge the Chalice anew and banish him again to his eternal darkness. To protect the world, erin must walk through the very gates of Hell and face the darkest of enemies: Lucifer himself. With the blood gospel, james rollins and rebecca cantrell combined science, the first novel in the Order of the Sanguines series, myth, and religion to introduce a breathtaking world where miracles hold new meaning and the fight for good over evil is far more complicated than we ever dreamed.
But the prize has already fallen into the hands of their enemy, a demon named Legion, before whom even the walls of the Vatican will fall. The search for the key to salvation will take Erin and the others across centuries and around the world, from the dusty shelves of the Vatican's secret archives to lost medieval laboratories, where ancient alchemies were employed to horrific ends.
Innocent Blood: The Order of the Sanguines Series
. In innocent blood they again take us to the edge of destruction. And into the deepest reaches of imagination. The search for the truth will take erin and the others across centuries and around the world, from the catacombs of Rome to an iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea, from the dusty plains of the Holy Land to the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean, and at last to the very gates of Hell itself, where their destiny--and the fate of mankind--awaits.
With the blood gospel, the first novel in the order of the sanguines series, myth, James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell breathtakingly combined science, and religion and introduced a world where miracles hold new meaning and the fight for good over evil is far more complicated than we ever dreamed. A vicious attack at a ranch in california thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the folds of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ and tasked with protecting the world from the beasts haunting its shadows and waiting to break free into the sunlight.
. For any hope of victory, an event wrapped in sin and destruction, Erin must discover the truth behind Christ's early years and understand His first true miracle, an act that yet remains unfulfilled and holds the only hope for the world.
The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series
But a brutal attack at the site sets the three on the run, thrusting them into a race to recover what was once preserved in the tomb's sarcophagus: a book rumored to have been written by Christ's own hand, a tome that is said to hold the secrets to His divinity. The enemy who hounds them is like no other, a force of ancient evil directed by a leader of impossible ambitions and incalculable cunning.
From crumbling tombs to splendorous churches, to a moment in history when Christ made a miraculous offer, to a time when ungodly beasts hunted the dark spaces of the world, Erin and her two companions must confront a past that traces back thousands of years, a pact of salvation for those who were damned for eternity.
Here is a novel that is explosive in its revelation of a secret history. A trio of investigators--sergeant Jordan Stone, a military forensic expert; Father Rhun Korza, a Vatican priest; and Dr. Why do catholic priests wear pectoral crosses? why are they sworn to celibacy? why do the monks hide their countenances under hoods? And why does Catholicism insist that the consecration of wine during Mass results in its transformation to Christ's own blood? The answers to all go back to a secret sect within the Vatican, one whispered as rumor but whose very existence was painted for all to see by Rembrandt himself, a shadowy order known simply as the Sanguines.
In the end, be warned: some books should never be found, never opened--until now.
The Midnight Watch: A Sigma Force Short Story Kindle Single Sigma Force Novels
To rescue a biologist trapped in the national museum of natural history and to discover the true intent behind an assault that grows bolder and bloodier by the minute, Sigma Force must unleash its most headstrong operative—Joe Kowalski—to do what he does best: lay waste to anything between him and his goal.
Soil can only be stopped by…the midnight watchIn the dead of night, a faceless enemy hacks into the Smithsonian Institution’s network of servers, but it is only the first strike masking a larger attack.
Crash and Burn: A Sigma Force Short Story Kindle Single
Crash and Burn. On a transatlantic flight, the two black sheep of Sigma Force--Seichan and Kowalski--must set aside their mutual dislike as a mysterious fiery force knocks their aircraft out of the sky. But something horrific awaits the two, something born of the latest science but rooted in our basest human instincts.
New york times bestselling author James Rollins comes a shocking short story, where a chance mishap leads to the discovery of a weapon like no other in .
Tracker: A Short Story Exclusive Sigma Force Series
The secret she holds will unlock a terrible treasure, one steeped in blood and treachery, tied to a crime going back to the fall of Nazi Germany and a heritage of suffering and pain that reaches out from the past to wreak havoc today. From new york times bestselling author james rollins comes a stirring story of a soldier and his military war dog who are drawn into a dark mystery tracing back to World War II and a lost treasure tied to the bones of the dead.
Off the streets in the medieval heart of Budapest, Captain Tucker Wayne and his war dog, Kane, rescue a mysterious woman fleeing three armed men.
The Skeleton Key: A Short Story Exclusive Sigma Force Series
Caught between two enemies, she must fight for her life while time ticks down toward a fiery apocalypse. To survive, she must venture into the dark world beneath the City of Lights, into the infamous catacombs of Paris. In the end, the only true hope for the world lies in a stunning act of betrayal. Included with this short story is a sneak peek at the first 70 pages of The Devil Colony, where a clue unlocked by The Skeleton Key will play a key role.
But in the dark, surrounded by the moldering bones of the dead, even success does not equal survival. Joined by a boy who is similarly threatened, she must rescue the son of a hated enemy, who has fallen under the sway of the nefarious leader of an apocalyptic cult.
Ghost Ship: A Sigma Force Short Story
Included with this short story is a sneak peek at the upcoming Sigma Force novel, The Demon Crown, where events here lead to Sigma’s most harrowing adventure to date. Ghost shipthe discovery of a burned body sprawled on a remote Australian beach shatters the vacation plans of Commander Gray Pierce. To thwart an ingenious enemy, he and Seichan are pulled into a centuries-old mystery surrounding a lost convict ship, the Trident.
The vessel—with a history of mutiny and stolen treasure—vanished into the mists of time, but nothing stays lost forever. A freak storm reveals clues scattered across the Great Barrier Reef, but following those clues will lead to bloodshed and savagery, for where this ghost ship is hidden is as shocking as the mystery behind its disappearance.
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The Kill Switch: A Tucker Wayne Novel
But can even tucker and kane thwart an ecological menace out of the ancient past to save the world's future? Government call upon when a mission requires perfect stealth, execution, a military working dog of exceptional abilities -- in:THE KILL SWITCHThe mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, Kane, and discretion? Meet the newest recruits to the expanding Sigma Force universe--former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bioweapon.
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