The Black Covenant
The Disciple: The Black Covenant
Power never vanishes. It only changes hands.
The Black Covenant is the second novel written in The Disciple Series and the second in the chronological timeline that is currently finished, but it is designed to be read entirely on its own. Each book in the series stands as a complete story, exploring a different era, conflict, and facet of Marcus Longinus’s immortal existence. No prior knowledge of the series is required.
Yes, there other books planned to be written to fill in the large gaps in Marcus's life throughout the centuries.
The Disciple: The Black Covenant
By the time the Church becomes powerful, Marcus Longinus has already learned that power rarely arrives clean.
More than a millennia after the Crucifixion, the faith that once hunted Marcus now quietly seeks his help. The world has changed. The persecuted have become the authority. Doctrine has hardened into law, and belief has learned to wear structure and ceremony. Marcus has lived long enough to know that when institutions ask for help, it is never for simple reasons.
The Black Covenant follows Marcus into an era where faith is no longer fragile, but guarded. Secrets are buried beneath scripture, and the truth is shaped as carefully as doctrine itself. What begins as a request draws Marcus into a hidden struggle operating beneath the Church’s public face, one that trades in forbidden knowledge, suppressed history, and decisions made in the name of stability rather than righteousness.
This is not a story about heresy or rebellion. It is a story about obedience. Obedience to the church or to oneself. Which is the stronger? About the difference between belief and control. About what happens when survival becomes justification, and silence becomes sacred.
Marcus is not a crusader and he is not a judge. He is a witness. He remembers the world before authority learned how to sanctify itself. His immortality gives him no answers, only memory, and memory is dangerous in a world that depends on forgetting.
As Marcus moves deeper into the machinery bordering faith, the lines between protector and threat begin to blur. Allies speak in half truths. Enemies hide behind familiar symbols. Every choice carries consequences that do not end with him. Unlike Marcus, others do not rise again.
The Black Covenant is darker and more intimate than the Cursed Wanderer. It is less about open war and more about quiet decisions that reshape the world. It explores how good intentions rot, how faith is weaponized, and how easily the idea of order becomes a substitute for justice.
Although this is the second book written and the second in the timeline of the Disciple series, it is designed to stand entirely on its own. Each Disciple novel explores a different era and conflict in Marcus Longinus’s unending existence. They can be read in any order.
This is a story about what people are willing to sacrifice to keep control, and what it costs to refuse.
Kevin McIntyre is the author of The Disciple Series, a dark historical supernatural saga born from a lifelong love of storytelling, history, faith, and myth. He grew up in Alaska, a place that left a permanent mark on his imagination. There was something wild and almost fantastical about it, the kind of place that felt pulled from legend. He still remembers watching bald eagles fish over the frozen lake behind his house, and if there is a perfect place to fall in love with fantasy, he would argue Alaska is hard to beat.
As the child of a military family, life changed often and friends rarely stayed in one place for long. Kevin first discovered storytelling through Dungeons and Dragons at nine years old. When people came and went, he began creating stories for himself, building worlds he could control when so much else around him kept shifting. That love of storytelling never faded. Over the years, it only grew stronger, eventually becoming the foundation for the stories he writes today.
After leaving Alaska with his family following his freshman year, he found life in the South difficult and never truly felt at home there. By fifteen, unable to stand the southern heat or the feeling of being out of place, he moved back to Alaska on his own, got his first job, went back to school, and rented a room in a friend’s house. That independence, and that return to the place that felt most like home, shaped much of who he became.
Now at fifty, Kevin’s life has changed dramatically, but storytelling remains at the center of it. A few years ago, he decided it was finally time to put some of the stories in his head onto paper. What began as a single idea for one book became a trilogy, and from there expanded into something far larger. The Disciple Series grew into a world with more stories than he can count, a sweeping universe of cursed men, ruined kingdoms, biblical horror, and the long weight of history.
Kevin lives with his incredible partner, whose support has made this journey possible. She keeps him grounded, focused, and moving forward when his impatience gets the better of him. He is the first to admit patience is not one of his strengths, and her steady presence has helped turn ideas into something real.
Outside of writing, Kevin is also the founder of a veteran support apparel brand dedicated to speaking openly about mental health and PTSD among veterans. It is a mission close to his heart. He knows what it is like when the darkness moves in and there is no voice to answer it. Through events, conversations, and community outreach, he works to help build support for those who are struggling and to remind them they are not alone.
At home, life is shared with two unforgettable dogs. Floki is an oversized Staffordshire Terrier who is loyal, loving, allergic to what feels like the entire world, and as dense as a bag of rocks. Hela, his dog, is a Siberian Husky and Australian Shepherd mix with all the attitude that combination promises. She is outspoken, opinionated, and absolutely certain she is in charge. Together, they keep life loud and interesting.
When he is not writing, Kevin and his partner are usually out riding Nomad, their Harley, or wandering through bookstores looking for a place to disappear for a while. He is also a proud father of three and grandfather of two. Though he does not get to see them as often as he would like, he loves them deeply and takes great pride in the independent, stubborn, remarkable people they have become.
At the heart of everything he does, whether in fiction, community work, or family, is the same belief that stories matter. They give us a place to wrestle with darkness, meaning, history, and hope. For Kevin McIntyre, that belief is what continues to drive every page he writes.