The ORDER

Brother against brother. Father against son. Love against love.
Where does it begin? Where does it end?
From Blood. In Blood.

Six hundred years ago, five families made a blood oath to a god. Today, that oath is coming due.

In 1411, fleeing a plague that turned its victims' skin to ash, five families wandered into a forest no one had ever escaped. There, a dying priest offered them a bargain: their lives, in exchange for eternal servitude to the One God, Amidhaay.
They accepted. They were reborn as the O.R.D.E.R.

Six centuries later, the O.R.D.E.R. is the most powerful secret society on Earth. Its five families - Eldridge, Dahlstorm, Rosenberg, Osborne, and Rodesvich - control governments, banks, armies, and the flow of weapons across every continent. They have no flag, no headquarters, no name the world would recognize. They are a myth that rules reality.

But myths have laws. And laws have a price.

Godwin Eldridge, the elected leader of the O.R.D.E.R., has spent his life preparing for the Lunar of Eight - the once-in-centuries alignment when the prophecy foretells the rise of the Kronen, the one who will pave the way for the One God's return. He believes that chosen one is his eldest son, Adelard: brilliant, ruthless, and utterly loyal.
His youngest son, Richard, believes the O.R.D.E.R. is a rot that needs to be cut out.

When a ghost begins hunting the family's operations across the globe - leaking their secrets, slaughtering their convoys, sending them videos of their own men dying - Godwin is forced to bring Richard back from exile to hunt him down. But Richard has his own reasons for returning. And the ghost has his own reasons for waiting.

As the seven-day war begins, the Eldridge family tears itself apart from the inside. A CIA analyst hunts a shadow she can't prove exists. A presidential candidate builds a holy war on a lie. A dead woman's secret threatens to bring the whole order down. And somewhere beneath a mountain in Switzerland, the Heart of the One God is waking up.

Loyalty is a weapon. Blood is a debt. And the O.R.D.E.R. always collects.

The ORDER: Chapter 1 is the first volume of a four-part saga - a sprawling, multi-generational conspiracy thriller about power, family, faith, and the price of a promise made in blood. For readers who love the intricate world-building of Dune, the family warfare of The Godfather, and the secret-society dread of The Da Vinci Code.

"Some will give it rave reviews. Some will question the complex structure and the number of characters. I'm just a writer who poured honesty, time, grit, effort, and perseverance into this book." - from the Author's Note

"You keep mocking me, humiliating me, hurting me... deriving pleasure out of it, feeding your ego. But do not be fooled, for your time will come and you will pay dearly. You will repent, you will feel sorrow, you will feel pain, and you will feel helpless... You will be on your knees, you will be in tears, and you will beg for mercy, but do not be fooled, for our blood will not and cannot in any measure force me to forgive you or have mercy on you because... I will not. And that day, you will learn the hard way that you should not mock what you cannot endure. Until then, live, breathe, feed, but do not be fooled, for your time will come."
- Javier Eldridge, Knight of the O.R.D.E.R.