Huron Blackheart – he’s been in the news a lot lately, hasn’t he? – is up to his old tricks and has his sights set on conquering an entire sub-sector, with only a battle fleet of Silver Skulls Space Marines able to stop him. Can Captain Arrun take on the might of the Red Corsairs and prevail? Vote for The Gildar Rift by Sarah Cawkwell and find out.
The city of Commorragh has barely survived a daemonic incursion known as the Dysjunction, and now the supreme overlord, Asdrubael Vect, needs to reassert his power over the dark city. The Path of the Dark Eldar series comes to a close in Path of the Archon by Andy Chambers, as the noble Yllithian desperately tries to stay out of Vect’s clutches.
The devoutly puritan Inquisitor Covenant steps into the limelight in John French’s Resurrection, as he prepares to denounce the heretic Talicto before an inquisitorial conclave. Disaster strikes, and many of the conclave are slain when a mysterious cult assaults the gathering, leading Covenant on a quest to uncover just what Talicto’s involvement is – and what the cult’s true motives are.
The Iron Hands descend on a world riven by heresy in The Eye of Medusa by David Guymer, as a schism in the Adeptus Mechanicus demands immediate retribution. It matters not that Thennos is under their protection, for a dark presence festers within, and it threatens the sanctity of the machine that the Iron Hands hold so dear.
A newly assigned Arbites officer, Shira Calpurnia, is thrown into the thick of it when tensions flare up on the dockyard world of Hydraphur and a series of assassination attempts causes chaos among the ruling elite. With unhelpful nobles double-crossing everyone they can touch and corruption rampant throughout the city, Shira has her work cut out solving the case in Crossfire by Matthew Farrer.
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