TEMPLE OF THE GRAIL
1254 AD
A delegation of the Inquisition, headed by Rainerio Sacconi, an infamous inquisitor, is travelling to a remote monastery in Languedoc. Accompanying this delegation on behalf of the Templar Order are Christian de St Armand, a Templar Preceptor Andre and their Jewish friend Eisik.
On the very night of their arrival a monk is murdered. Thereafter monks are found dead, murdered in heinous ways, with clues being left in Andre's room pointing to the next victim.
Andre and Christian, a medieval Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, must solve the clues. Racing in and out of scriptoriums, churches and underground tunnels they must find the killer before the inquisitor can burn innocent men and unwittingly stumble on the secrets of the monastery.
Will they stop the murderers and prevent the inquisitor from getting his hands on the monastery's secrets?
Copyright ⓒ Adriana Koulias 2004
THE SEAL
1291 AD
When the mighty Kingdom of Jerusalem falls to the Mamalukes, the Templars must flee to Cyprus where the Order becomes divided between the brothers who side with the bankers and seek peace and the brothers who want to recover the Holy Land and wish to wage war.
Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Temple, finds he is beset by enemies and sends the Marshal of the Order, Marcus, in a Merchant galley captained by a mercenary to Scotland carrying the Order's gold and archives while he and his seneschal travel to France to seek the Pope's sanction for a new crusade.
In France Jacques soon realises that both Pope and the King are conspiring against the Temple but not merely for its temporal goods, but for a secret hidden in the Grand Master's Seal.
Jacques sends Etienne, a battle weary and loyal Templar Knight, his Captain and two mercenaries to the furthest edges of Europe carrying the Seal to its final resting place. Etienne must not only dodge spies and assassins but he must also battle with his own shadows.
Will he manage to keep the seal out of the hands of the King of France?
Copyright ⓒ Adriana Koulias 2006
1938
Otto Rahn, a German Grail Historian and writer is having a hard time making ends meet in France, when he receives a mysterious telegram from a publisher offering a two book deal with an advance.
On answering the telegram Rahn discovers to his horror, that his new publisher is Himmler. Himmler makes him an honorary SS officer and sends him to the south of france to find a Grimoire of Black Magic called Le Serpent Rouge. Himmler wants to give it to Hitler as a gift for his birthday.
What Himmler doesn't know is that Rahn has discovered that he is Jewish, what Otto Rahn doesn't know is that he is not the only one looking for the Grimoire. A number of Black Brotherhoods are after it and the key to complete it, and they will stop at nothing to get their hands on it.
After a harrowing time Otto Rahn escapes to Paris and connects with his old pal, Paul Madame. La Dame has given him some information on a man he is to meet - a dubious character who gives Rahn a diary in which there are a number of clues left by a man called Monte, who had previously been searching for the Grimoire. There is the mention of a priest and some information on the grimoire.
Rahn goes to Arques, to stay with his mentor Deodat Roche, and Roche suggests he meet a priest called Cros, who had been investigation the priests of the area years before, but was now very old.
The priest dies under mysterious circumstances but not before giving Rahn and Deodat the clues to the whereabouts of a list of names. The next day Deodat is kidnapped and this begins a hunt that leads RAhn and Cros' niece Eva to Rennes Chateau where they are given an encrypted document which they decipher to reveal the whereabouts of a missing Key not found in any Grimoire but only in the Book of Revelations.
After a showdown with Black Magicians, Otto Rahn and Eva manage to destroy the key, but realise that it was just a red herring planted there by Cros. He had planned it all along and had instigated the race for the grimoire to safeguard something else...
Copyright ⓒ Adriana Koulias 2011
THE SIXTH KEY
1244 AD
A Cathar Bishop, Bertrand Marty, has made a promise to a dying friend and colleague that he will go to the fortress of Montsegur to 'Seek Wisdom like a Bee seeks its rose'.
When a Southern noble kills an inquisitor in a town nearby Pope Innocent with the help of the French King sends an army to destroy the Cathar heretics once and for all. The last bastion of the Cathars, Montsegur, is besieged.
One night, while consulting his books in the tower of the Keep, Marty is visited by a woman, Lea. Lea tells him of a secret gospel and proceeds to recount to him so he can write it down.
This Gospel will change his life forever. It is the dangerous and heretical story of two Jesus children.
Moving backwards and forwards in time the stories interweave in a tale of karma and destiny.
Copyright ⓒ Adriana Koulias 2012
FIFTH GOSPEL - A NOVEL
GHOST CLUB
Due for release 202
1888
When the well-respected Secretary of the Society of Psychic research is found mysteriously dead in a Brighton Hotel, inspector Abberline of Scotland Yard seeks the help of Mabel Collins, an occultist and Douglas Blackburn a Journalist. Together they stumble onto a club of shadowy men seeking the secret of the Rosicrucians in order to enact an occult plot for world domination.
GHOST CLUB
In 1855 a Club was formed by young members of Trinity College Cambridge University England and included in its membership Charles Dickens. The Ghosts as they called themselves gathered to share information and stories of their own experiences of the paranormal. They also performed the first psychic investigations into paranormal activity.
The club was disbanded after the death of Dickens and revived on All Saints Day in 1882 by Alfred Alaric Watts, the son of journalist and poet Alaric Alexander Watts, and a famous contemporary medium, the Reverend Stainton Moses.
Unlike the Society for Psychic Research, The Ghost Club was a selective and secretive organization of convinced believers in the paranormal. Membership was by invitation only after a member passed certain tests.
The names of members - both living and dead (incorporeals) were solemnly recited each year on the Day of the Dead. These meetings were cloaked in secrecy and all members living or dead were required to attend.
The minutes of these meetings have never been seen by anyone.
Some of its illustrious members were:
Sir William Crookes; Sir Oliver Lodge, the physicist; Nandor Fodor, psychologist and a former associate of Sigmund Freud; and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and William Butler Yates.
Copyright ⓒ Adriana Koulias 2022