The Rising is a fast paced action novel loaded with military special operations and the supernatural. Sergeant First Class Clay Hawker, U.S. Army Special Forces, is a combat veteran who is drawn into a fight that he never dreamed existed. After the murder of his wife and daughter, Hawker is recruited by Cardinal Joseph Geller and finds himself transferred as a military consultant to the Trinity Twelve Corporation. In reality, Trinity is the 21st century version of the Holy Order of the Inquisition, whose mission is to fight evil that governments are not equipped to deal with. Hawker, along with other elite military warriors, soon finds himself battling vampires and demons. Now they have encountered the enigmatic Reverend Brian Williams and his mercenaries. Little do they realize that soon they will be in the fight of their lives and the fate of the world will depend on them.