The Cursed Wanderer
The Disciple: The Cursed Wanderer
Eternal life is not a gift. It is a sentence.
The Disciple: The Cursed Wanderer explores the cost of immortality through the eyes of Marcus Longinus, the Roman soldier forever bound to a single moment in history. While the world remembers the Crucifixion as a turning point for faith, Marcus experiences it as the beginning of an unending punishment. His curse does not grant power or peace. It grants memory. Pain. Time without escape.
This novel follows the earliest centuries of Marcus’s existence as he struggles to survive not just the physical violence inflicted upon him, but the psychological weight of living while everything around him decays, reforms, and repeats its mistakes. Empires rise. Religions fracture. People harden their beliefs into weapons. Marcus remains.
Rather than framing immortality as heroic or enviable, The Cursed Wanderer treats it as erosion of identity, morality, and hope. Marcus is not driven by destiny or prophecy. He is driven by exhaustion. His journey is defined less by what he seeks and more by what he tries to forget. Guilt, faith, and responsibility press in on him from all sides as he wrestles with the idea that divine punishment may not come with divine purpose.
The novel also examines the early growth of the Church through an unromantic lens. Faith is shown as something both sacred and dangerous, capable of inspiring compassion or cruelty depending on who wields it. Marcus encounters believers, manipulators, zealots, and opportunists, each convinced they serve the truth. Through them, the story asks whether belief sanctifies actions or merely excuses them.
At its core, The Cursed Wanderer is not a story about redemption through forgiveness, but redemption through endurance. Marcus is not chosen because he is righteous. He is chosen because he survives. In surviving, he is forced to confront a single question again and again. If suffering is endless, does meaning still matter?
This first volume stands alone while laying the philosophical and mythological foundation for The Disciple series, an interconnected body of stories spanning centuries, each examining a different era, conflict, and cost of Marcus Longinus’s unending watch.
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.