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Eli: Forged in Fire
AN ARMY IS COMING FOR ELI COOPER. HE PLANS TO MEET THEM ON HIS OWN GROUND.
Eli Cooper makes it home bleeding, to a cold house and a dog with a bullet in his leg. The people he swore to protect are in St. Marys, in the hands of the warlord who rules it, and Vorn isn’t finished with him yet.
Eli can’t reach them. Not yet. Vorn’s men are already on their way to end this, so Eli does the only thing he can. With his grandfather’s old field manual and a handful of people willing to bleed for him, he turns three generations of family land into a weapon.
Inside St. Marys, Selene Navarro wears the Hell’s Enforcers brand and walks Vorn’s halls as one of his own. She’s the only thing keeping Sandra alive. But every test Vorn hands her pulls her closer to becoming what she swore to destroy, and he’s starting to wonder whose side she’s really on.
And in the burned towns to the north, a man with a scarred smile is building a following of his own. One that makes Vorn look merciful.
Every day Eli spends fighting to stay alive is another day Sandra spends in Vorn’s hands.
What doesn’t burn gets forged.
From bestselling author Joseph Sackett comes Book 3 of Dark Warlord Territories, a dark, gritty EMP survival series for readers of William R. Forstchen and Michael Hopf.
Eli Cooper makes it home bleeding, to a cold house and a dog with a bullet in his leg. The people he swore to protect are in St. Marys, in the hands of the warlord who rules it, and Vorn isn’t finished with him yet.
Eli can’t reach them. Not yet. Vorn’s men are already on their way to end this, so Eli does the only thing he can. With his grandfather’s old field manual and a handful of people willing to bleed for him, he turns three generations of family land into a weapon.
Inside St. Marys, Selene Navarro wears the Hell’s Enforcers brand and walks Vorn’s halls as one of his own. She’s the only thing keeping Sandra alive. But every test Vorn hands her pulls her closer to becoming what she swore to destroy, and he’s starting to wonder whose side she’s really on.
And in the burned towns to the north, a man with a scarred smile is building a following of his own. One that makes Vorn look merciful.
Every day Eli spends fighting to stay alive is another day Sandra spends in Vorn’s hands.
What doesn’t burn gets forged.
From bestselling author Joseph Sackett comes Book 3 of Dark Warlord Territories, a dark, gritty EMP survival series for readers of William R. Forstchen and Michael Hopf.
506 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 14, 2025
About the author
Joseph A. Sackett
23 books52 followersJoseph A. Sackett is a bestselling author and Kindle All-Star Award winner with more than a dozen novels in print. He writes post-apocalyptic fiction and horror.
A retired veteran with over twenty years in America's special operations community, he worked alongside SOCOM, JSOC, and MARSOC and deployed with them into hostile environments. He brings that to every firefight, every survival decision, and every moral line his characters have to cross.
His post-apocalyptic work blends the brutal intensity of Pierce Brown with the relentless pacing of Kyla Stone. His horror draws from the dark corners explored by Joe Hill and the visceral tension of David Sodergren.
If you want stories that hit hard and stay with you, you're in the right place.
Originally from Minnesota, Joseph now lives in Florida with his fiancée, where he runs Ravaged Realms LLC and continues building his universe of broken worlds and the people trying to survive them.
Want a free post-apocalyptic thriller? Get Echoes of the Fallen at https://go.ravagedrealms.com/9gm
Signed copies, the full catalog and more: https://ravagedrealms.com
A retired veteran with over twenty years in America's special operations community, he worked alongside SOCOM, JSOC, and MARSOC and deployed with them into hostile environments. He brings that to every firefight, every survival decision, and every moral line his characters have to cross.
His post-apocalyptic work blends the brutal intensity of Pierce Brown with the relentless pacing of Kyla Stone. His horror draws from the dark corners explored by Joe Hill and the visceral tension of David Sodergren.
If you want stories that hit hard and stay with you, you're in the right place.
Originally from Minnesota, Joseph now lives in Florida with his fiancée, where he runs Ravaged Realms LLC and continues building his universe of broken worlds and the people trying to survive them.
Want a free post-apocalyptic thriller? Get Echoes of the Fallen at https://go.ravagedrealms.com/9gm
Signed copies, the full catalog and more: https://ravagedrealms.com
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December 13, 2025
Loved the third instalment in the series, im fully in all characters new and old and can’t wait to see where this nail biting journey leads them next.
Still some editing issues - spelling and grammar mistakes and at one point the ebook repeated on itself for several pages which was confusing.
Still some editing issues - spelling and grammar mistakes and at one point the ebook repeated on itself for several pages which was confusing.
May 13, 2026
great series
Joseph crafts a fine storyline on characters introduced to me in other series he has written. It’s another example of something just do not want to stop reading. Hope to read the next volume when released.
Joseph crafts a fine storyline on characters introduced to me in other series he has written. It’s another example of something just do not want to stop reading. Hope to read the next volume when released.
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