Flesh and Bone
About this ebook
August, 1999.
Matthew Riley has survived Desert Storm, built a civilian life, and found steady work on an oil rig in the Gulf. After six weeks offshore, he's finally coming home to Lafayette, Louisiana, and the family he's spent his entire hitch missing.
Two weeks with his wife, Cleo, and their teenage son. Two weeks to be a husband and father again.
But when Riley reaches home, the front door is standing open.
There's blood in the living room.
And something that looks human is feeding on his wife.
Riley reacts the only way he knows how. He fights. When it's over, two intruders are dead and the life Matthew Riley knew is gone forever.
Then the police identify one of the bodies.
There's just one problem.
The man Riley killed has already been dead for three weeks.
The police think there's been a mistake. Riley knows better. Something impossible came into his home that night. Something that murdered his family and walked away from the grave to do it.
Then a stranger arrives with an explanation Riley isn't prepared to believe.
Monsters are real.
There are people who hunt them.
And what happened to Riley's family may not be over.
Grieving, angry, and desperate for answers, Riley is about to discover that the world is far darker than he ever imagined—and that surviving the worst night of his life was only the beginning.
Because some men discover monsters and spend the rest of their lives trying to forget.
Matthew Riley decides to fight back.
Flesh and Bone is a Templar Chronicles Mission and the origin story of one of the series' most beloved characters—the tragedy that transformed a soldier, husband, and father into the warrior who would one day stand beside Cade Williams and Echo Team against the forces of darkness.
Whether you're a longtime reader or entering the Templar Chronicles for the first time, this standalone supernatural thriller reveals the story Riley never tells.
Every knight has a beginning.
This is his.
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About the author
Joseph Nassise is the New York Times, USA Today, and Der Spiegel bestselling author of more than sixty novels in the supernatural action adventure and urban fantasy genres, including the Templar Chronicles series, the Jeremiah Hunt series, and the Great Undead War series.
He's a former two-term president of the Horror Writers Association, the world's largest organization of professional horror writers, and a three-time Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award nominee. His work has been translated into six languages and he's sold more than three-quarters of a million copies of his books worldwide to date.
You can learn more about him on the web at www.josephnassise.com.
