Dark Matter: Order of the Hidden Cross

Dark Matter: The Order of the Hidden Cross is a genre-blurring descent into multiversal horror, theological conspiracy, and the haunting pull of destiny. Spanning 19 chapters of escalating tension, it follows the intertwined fates of a gifted child and a troubled priest-both marked by powers far older than heaven.

Joshua Carpenter was never meant to be ordinary. Born beneath a sky that cracked with signs, his life is shadowed by forces unseen-Memory Keepers, Watchers, and other entities that do not speak in words but in whispers of fate. As he grows, he begins to remember things no child should know. Things no one should know.

His only guide is Beris, a creature not quite angel, not quite beast, tasked with preparing Joshua for a war across worlds-a war between light and shadow, faith and control, memory and oblivion.

Meanwhile, Father Filadelfo, a newly ordained priest, is drawn into a Vatican conspiracy after witnessing a child attacked by something not of this world. His search for truth leads him deep into the Order of the Hidden Cross-an ancient sect guarding secrets too dangerous to be spoken aloud.

As their stories converge, so too do the layers of reality. The end is not the end. The war has always been. And in the space between stars, something stirs. Within the Dark Matter.

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