The Awakened Series

For a thousand years,
they hunted the bloodline.

Supernatural thrillers from the bottom of the world — where an archaeologist's discovery wakes a power older than recorded history, and the line between myth and memory begins to drown.

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    The Series

    The Awakened

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    The Atlantean Shadow

    Book One · Available Now

    An archaeologist uncovers a truth older than history — and awakens something the world was never meant to remember. Across the centuries, the hunters of the Covenant have been waiting for this moment. The bloodline of Atlantis is about to surface.

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    The Rising Tide

    Book Two · Available Now

    The awakening was only the beginning. As an ancient power stirs in the deep and a covenant older than nations is tested, Elara Voss must become what she was always meant to be — and the world above will never be the same.

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    The Drowned Stars

    Book Three · Coming Soon

    Beneath the ice at the bottom of the world, the deep keeps its oldest secret — and something ancient is racing to claim it first. The finale of The Awakened is on its way.

    In Development
    The Trusted Face — A Supernatural Western, coming to Kindle December 2026
    Coming December 2026

    The Trusted Face

    A Supernatural Western

    A new standalone from Brian Monteer — and a hard turn from the deep. On the haunted edge of the Western frontier, a U.S. Marshal hunts something that leaves no tracks: a creature that wears the faces of the people you trust.

    The Awakened showed you what stirs beneath the water. The Trusted Face asks what's been walking among us all along.

    Coming to Kindle · December 2026

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    Brian Monteer
    The Author

    Brian Monteer

    Brian Monteer has spent a lifetime in worlds most people only read about. From U.S. Army Airborne infantry, through twenty-five years in law enforcement, to leading corporate protective services on a global stage, he learned how people behave when everything is on the line.

    Now he writes the supernatural thrillers he always wanted to read — fast, atmospheric, and built on the question of what we'd become if the oldest myths turned out to be true. The Awakened is his flagship series. He also leads GrayFox Consulting Group, a security and intelligence firm.

    He lives in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

    Also by Brian Monteer
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    Two Fixed Points

    A Story About Getting Lost and Finding Your Way

    A quieter book from a different corner of the same mind — a short, reflective story about losing your bearings and finding them again. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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