When Father Neal deciphers a voodoo message with a dire warning, he reveals he is part of the Order of the Five Sorrows-a group dedicated to fighting evil with the use of holy objects present at Christ's crucifixion-and Aidan is destined to become a member The supernatural unleashed . . . Still reeling from Father Neal's revelation, Aidan assists his friend Brian by investigating a series of unexplained events at his farm, including eerie lights in the fields at night and his daughter's fixation with an invisible friend. After women with mysterious powers, who are hunting down a witch from the 1600s, appear, the group embarks on a perilous journey to destroy the Dark Bride before the Grinning Man's true purpose can come to pass . . . but they will be drawn into a horrific battle that some will not survive.
"For those who like to mix deep theological debate with full-throttle horror, there's no better bet than the works of the Benedictine-trained master of the macabre, Jonathan Ryan. In Dark Bride, he continues the monumental struggle between good and evil so memorably begun in his spooky debut, 3 Gates of the Dead, and takes it to a whole new level of suspense and good old-fashioned, keep-the-lights
Robert Masello, bestselling author of The Romanov Cross and Raising Hell
"In Jonathan Ryan's Dark Bride-a tale steeped in the fantastic and simmered in faith, a book as terrifying as it is profound-Dan Brown collides with Stephen King collides with St. Augustine."
