The Gathering
By Ray Ronan · Book Two of The Order of the Seal
"Ray Ronan, a new name to contend with."
Marc Eliot, New York Times bestselling author
TIME IS HIS PLAYGROUND.
SOULS ARE HIS CURRENCY.
HISTORY IS HIS TO MAKE.
Historian could not buy the father. So he has gone to the children.
The Order of the Seal has held the line for two thousand years. Now it is breaking from within.
Prague, 1943. The Order's own commander has struck a bargain with the force he swore before God to contain. The Spear of Longinus, the lance that pierced Christ, is the prize. End Hitler. End the war. Save millions. The cost is everything the Order was built to protect.
In Dresden, Historian closes in on the one man who refused him. Theo Engel runs his factory under Gestapo watch, holding to conscience and sense while the world around him loses both. But Historian is changing. More present. More human. He turns the Engel family against itself from the inside.
The forces that circled at a distance are converging. The Order. The Reich. And a demon, for the first time in two thousand years, is about to evolve.
He does not record history. He makes it.
For readers of Ken Follett, Steve Berry and Dan Brown.
27 October 2026
Praise for Ray Ronan
"Fans of Alan Furst will find something new to obsess over. Ronan writes with rare authority."
Glenn Meade, internationally bestselling author
"A masterclass in historical fiction, invoking Hilary Mantel's attention for historical detail, alongside the narrative pacing of Dan Brown."
"The author does a masterful job of linking the supernatural with historically-known events."
"Ray has done his research and spent a great deal of time mixing the real, the surreal... into a great historical thriller."