Als dromen fluisteren

Mélissa Da Costa

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A supernatural thriller where a warrior's worst nightmare comes true—and the only way forward is through Hell itself.

The time for a reckoning has come…

Cade Williams' worst nightmare has exploded into brutal reality. The Necromancer's black magick has not only shattered the infernal chains binding the Adversary, releasing the fallen angel from the prison where Cade locked it away, but allowed the ancient evil to possess the body of Cade's beloved wife, Gabrielle. When the Templars storm the ritual chamber and put a bullet through the Necromancer's skull, the Adversary—wearing Gabrielle's stolen flesh like a suit—sprouts massive wings and launches into the darkness, laughing.

And that's when Cade's world truly falls apart.

Branded a traitor by the Templar Order for his cooperation with the sorcerer—willing or not—Cade finds himself hunted by the very brothers-in-arms who once fought beside him. His former allies now have orders to bring him in, dead or alive. Meanwhile, he's working feverishly to track down the Adversary through shadow-soaked streets and nightmare realms, racing against time to rip his wife's soul free from the vile creature's stranglehold before it's too late.

A relentless hunt through darkness where every ally becomes an enemy, every answer costs blood, and salvation might require the ultimate sacrifice.

It's almost too much for the weary Echo Team commander to handle. The exhaustion is bone-deep. The odds are impossible. His resources are gone. His team is scattered. And he's running on nothing but rage, desperation, and the fading hope that some part of Gabrielle still survives inside the monster.

Just when he thinks things can't possibly get any worse, Cade makes contact with an entity known only as the Forsaken One—a being older and more terrifying than anything he's faced before. From this ancient creature, he finally discovers the answers to the questions that have haunted him since the Adversary first carved its way into his life all those years ago.

But these aren't the answers he wanted. They're the answers that will break him.

In a world where angels have fallen and demons walk freely, one man must choose between saving his wife and saving his soul—and the choice may already be made.

As Cade plunges deeper into the abyss, following a trail of carnage and dark miracles across the razor's edge between this world and the next, he begins to understand the true scope of the game being played. The Adversary didn't just escape. It didn't just possess Gabrielle. It has a plan. And that plan has been in motion longer than Cade has been alive.

The revelations will reshape everything Cade thought he knew. The cost will be higher than he ever imagined. And the final confrontation will demand he sacrifice pieces of himself he didn't know he still had left to lose.

The Echo Team has faced demons, vampires, necromancers, and worse. They've stormed the gates of Hell and walked away bleeding but victorious. But this time, the enemy wears the face of the woman Cade loves. This time, victory might look exactly like defeat.

What readers are saying:

"Judgment Day is where the series stops playing nice. Nassise takes everything Cade loves and sets it on fire, then makes him walk through the flames. Absolutely devastating."

"Book 5 raises the stakes so high I couldn't see the top. This isn't just a battle anymore—it's a reckoning. And nobody walks away clean."

New York Times bestseller Joseph Nassise's supernatural thriller series has been hailed as "unremittingly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) and "raising the genre to brilliant new heights" (Library Journal). Now, in the fifth book of the Templar Chronicles, he delivers his most pulse-pounding, emotionally devastating thrill ride yet.

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