Knights Of The Blood Books in Order

The Knights of the Blood novels take the fascination with Templars in a different direction, blending horror and secret history. Here the warrior monks did not simply disappear when their order was suppressed. Some of them became something else entirely, and their long feud stretches from the Crusades to the late twentieth century.

In this setting, a handful of Templar knights are transformed into vampires during the Middle Ages. Bound by their vows and their faith as much as by their thirst, they form a hidden brotherhood trying to bend their condition toward some form of service. Opposing them are other immortals who have embraced cruelty and power, including Nazi officers who found their own path to undeath during the chaos of World War II.

The modern thread follows Los Angeles policeman John Drummond, who stumbles into this underground war while investigating a series of brutal killings. What begins as a difficult homicide case becomes a revelation that the same enemies have been clashing in secret for centuries, with each era’s weapons and ideologies layered onto the same old hunger.

Across the books, flashbacks take readers to wartime Europe and back to crusading battlefields, showing how the original transformation of the knights continues to echo. The stories play with familiar vampire tropes — blood drinking, sunlight, immortality — but frame them through discipline, ritual, and the old Templar code. There is room for both grim action and uneasy questions about what redemption could look like for someone who can never truly die.

Katherine Kurtz’s role here is as a light touch collaborator and continuity guide, lending her feel for orders, heraldry, and occult detail to Scott MacMillan’s core concept. Fans of her more overtly religious or historical fantasies will recognise the respect for ritual and structure, even as the tone skews darker and more violent.

This page helps you read the sequence in order and shows how it dovetails with Kurtz’s other work about Templars. It is a good choice if you like the idea of vampire stories that take faith and history seriously, and do not mind letting the horror elements come to the foreground.