Remains of the Fallen
(2026)(The first book in the Father Blackburn Case series)
A novel by James Anderson Foster
A dead man came to Mass. He had been dead since the night before.
Eduardo Vasquez sat in the back pew of All Saints, said "Be safe, Father," and walked out through a gate that never opened. An hour later his cousin arrived to say the police had found Eduardo's body sealed inside a shipping container at the Port of Los Angeles — intact customs lock, no tool marks, a voyage from Manila that ended with a man who had been clocking in for work in San Pedro the day before the ship docked.
The joint task force calls it cartel business, because that is a story they know how to write. Eduardo's widow calls it a lie. She calls her priest.
Father Theodore Blackburn is the wrong man to ask, and the only one who will say yes.
For fifteen years he has lifted the host with steady hands and a Prince of Hell chained inside his own soul. It makes him useful. It is also, slowly, eating him alive.
What he finds at the port is not demonic. Blackburn knows demonic; he lives with it. This is something else. Something that carries the weight of the altar and the posture of blessing, turned inside out. A blessing with its throat cut.
It was holy once, bought as a relic by men with money and no sense. It is awake now, it's hungry, and the bodies are already stacking up in hospital beds across the harbor with no diagnosis anyone can write down.
Rome has sent a man to watch Blackburn. The prosecutor building a case file on him is the closest thing he has to an ally.
And the thing at the port has already looked back at him.
The Father Blackburn Cases begin here.
Genre: Horror
Eduardo Vasquez sat in the back pew of All Saints, said "Be safe, Father," and walked out through a gate that never opened. An hour later his cousin arrived to say the police had found Eduardo's body sealed inside a shipping container at the Port of Los Angeles — intact customs lock, no tool marks, a voyage from Manila that ended with a man who had been clocking in for work in San Pedro the day before the ship docked.
The joint task force calls it cartel business, because that is a story they know how to write. Eduardo's widow calls it a lie. She calls her priest.
Father Theodore Blackburn is the wrong man to ask, and the only one who will say yes.
For fifteen years he has lifted the host with steady hands and a Prince of Hell chained inside his own soul. It makes him useful. It is also, slowly, eating him alive.
What he finds at the port is not demonic. Blackburn knows demonic; he lives with it. This is something else. Something that carries the weight of the altar and the posture of blessing, turned inside out. A blessing with its throat cut.
It was holy once, bought as a relic by men with money and no sense. It is awake now, it's hungry, and the bodies are already stacking up in hospital beds across the harbor with no diagnosis anyone can write down.
Rome has sent a man to watch Blackburn. The prosecutor building a case file on him is the closest thing he has to an ally.
And the thing at the port has already looked back at him.
The Father Blackburn Cases begin here.
Genre: Horror
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