The Hounds of Heaven
(2026)(The second book in the Black Cathedral Covenant series)
A novel by Daniel Bautz
BLOOD IS LIFE. BUT THE DEBT IS DAMNATION.The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning bestseller, Life Is In The Blood.
Flynn Redd and Brannigan Rafferty survived the blood-soaked harvest of Ohio, but they could not outrun the debt. One a hardened lawman, the other a scholar, they now battle a predatory hunger that threatens to erase their humanity. Every heartbeat is a struggle against the animal within.
Miriam Yoder carries a burden even heavier. Within her grows the child of Silas Hemfant, a presence that defies every law of God and man.
Rome is calling its monsters home.
From the shadows of the Vatican, Cardinal Carmine De Pita arises with a singular focus: to seize the throne of Peter. De Pita is a master manipulator who has traded the brute fire of the woods for the clinical precision of the garrote. He maneuvers a volatile Conclave, desperate to seat an ancient and dark legacy at the center of the Holy Roman Church.
The Hounds of Heaven are on the hunt. These mongrel servants of the Vatican are bound by blood-contracts to purge their own kind. Their offer to Flynn, Brannigan, and Miriam is absolute: Join the covenant or be destroyed.
Trapped in a web of conspiratorial Cardinals and ancient blasphemies, the trio must navigate a world where every shadow hides a predator. As the battle for the soul of the Church closes in from every side, they must decide if the life they protect offers salvation or a final curse for the world.
The covenant demands obedience. The blood demands a price. Enter the Black Cathedral today.
Genre: Horror
Flynn Redd and Brannigan Rafferty survived the blood-soaked harvest of Ohio, but they could not outrun the debt. One a hardened lawman, the other a scholar, they now battle a predatory hunger that threatens to erase their humanity. Every heartbeat is a struggle against the animal within.
Miriam Yoder carries a burden even heavier. Within her grows the child of Silas Hemfant, a presence that defies every law of God and man.
Rome is calling its monsters home.
From the shadows of the Vatican, Cardinal Carmine De Pita arises with a singular focus: to seize the throne of Peter. De Pita is a master manipulator who has traded the brute fire of the woods for the clinical precision of the garrote. He maneuvers a volatile Conclave, desperate to seat an ancient and dark legacy at the center of the Holy Roman Church.
The Hounds of Heaven are on the hunt. These mongrel servants of the Vatican are bound by blood-contracts to purge their own kind. Their offer to Flynn, Brannigan, and Miriam is absolute: Join the covenant or be destroyed.
Trapped in a web of conspiratorial Cardinals and ancient blasphemies, the trio must navigate a world where every shadow hides a predator. As the battle for the soul of the Church closes in from every side, they must decide if the life they protect offers salvation or a final curse for the world.
The covenant demands obedience. The blood demands a price. Enter the Black Cathedral today.
Genre: Horror
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