Darkness Reigns

Cade Williams went to Hell and came back. While he was gone, the monsters won.

The world ended without him.

Cade and Gabrielle Williams have survived the impossible. Together they've escaped the Beyond and returned to the land of the living—but it isn't the world they left behind. The sky bleeds red. Cities stand abandoned. Nightgaunts hunt the survivors, and the highways are graveyards filled with the rusting remains of an exodus that went nowhere.

Humanity lost the war.

While Cade was trapped beyond the Veil, the Adversary and the Seven completed their conquest. The old governments are gone. America has been carved into territories ruled by demons, and the surviving human population exists at their mercy.

The Templar Order has been shattered. Most of its knights are dead, and the survivors have gone underground. But the resistance isn't finished.

And neither is Matthew Riley.

When Cade and Gabrielle finally reconnect with the remnants of the Order, they discover that Riley and a handful of surviving Templars have been waging a desperate guerrilla war against an enemy that controls nearly everything. They've been waiting for something that might give humanity a chance to fight back.

They've been waiting for Cade.

But the man who returned from the Beyond isn't the same man who entered it. Something inside Cade has awakened. He's faster, stronger, and more dangerous, and the powers emerging within him raise a question even Cade can't answer:

What exactly is he becoming?

There isn't time to find out. The demon rulers are tightening their grip. Human prisoners are disappearing into camps, while the resistance is running out of soldiers, weapons, and hope. And in Manhattan, one of the Adversary's most powerful servants rules from the heart of the fallen city.

Cade Williams has spent his life hunting monsters.

Now the monsters own the world.

It's time to start taking it back.

THE APOCALYPSE IS OVER. THE RESISTANCE BEGINS.

Darkness Reigns is the seventh novel in the bestselling Templar Chronicles, launching Cade Williams and Echo Team into a shattered new world of demonic occupation, supernatural warfare, dark fantasy, and desperate resistance.

If you like post-apocalyptic supernatural thrillers, modern Templar knights, demon-occupied cities, military resistance, fallen angels, monster hunting, and heroes who refuse to surrender even after the end of the world, the next war begins here.

The demons conquered the world. They should have made sure the Heretic was dead.