Shades of Blood

Captain Cade Williams has led Echo Team for only five years when the Templars hand him a nightmare assignment.

A veteran Knight Captain and his entire squad have vanished in Boston.

The only clue is a panicked message from a parish priest about missing street people and a mysterious blood cult operating in the city.

Then Echo Team finds the priest.

Dead.

His body has been drained—not of blood, but of the very life force that sustained him.

And stuffed into his mouth is the missing captain’s Templar ring.

The blood cult isn’t human.

Ch’iang Shih have come to Boston.

Animated corpses driven by an insatiable hunger for Chi, these ancient Chinese vampires don’t simply kill their victims.

They consume the life inside them.

And they have Bishop.

Cade and Echo Team have faced the supernatural before, but nothing has prepared them for enemies that can move between worlds, shrug off gunfire, and strike from places ordinary men can’t even see.

The missing Templars may still be alive.

Finding them means walking straight into an obvious trap.

Echo Team goes anyway.

Because Cade Williams may still be learning how to command.

But some things about the Heretic were there from the beginning.

BEFORE THE LEGEND CAME THE MISSIONS THAT MADE HIM.

Shades of Blood is a Templar Chronicles Mission, a fast-paced supernatural thriller from the early days of Cade Williams and Echo Team, featuring modern Templar knights, Chinese vampires, military action, dark magick, and the secret war against the supernatural.

Whether you’re a longtime Templar Chronicles reader or meeting Echo Team for the first time, this standalone adventure takes you back to a younger Cade Williams—before the scars, before the Adversary, and before the world learned to fear the Heretic.

The mission is simple: find the missing Templars.

Surviving what took them is another matter.