Inquisitor Kiamoro's death has been foretold. It is a certainty. Yet he will do anything to prevent it - even embracing the heretical ways of the alien Aeldari. His endeavours draw the attention of a fellow Inquisitor.
In the great library on the Imperial world of Antioth, Adept Neath has only one job - to count the endless books under orders of the Prefect - but his curiosity for knowledge renders him vulnerable to the Architect of Fate himself.
In the aftermath of an all-consuming war, a lone Tech-priest and the Kastelan Robot she commands set out through Ork-infested wastes on a quest to retrieve a sacred piece of technology from the ruins of a distant city.