In the 41st Millennium, Commissar Ciaphas Cain is looking for an easy life, but fate has a habit of throwing him into the deadliest situations and luck always manages to pull him through.

Led by Master Sammael, a group of dynamic Space Marines known as the Ravenwing help support the Dark Angel's war campaigns and defend the Imperium.

"It is the thirty-second millennium and the Imperium is at peace. The Traitor Legions of Chaos are but a distant memory and the many alien races that have long plagued mankind are held in check by the Space Marines. When a mission to exterminate one such xenos breed on the world of Ardamantua draws in more of their forces, the Imperial Fists abandon the walls of Terra for the first time in more than a thousand years. And when another, greater, foe...

"The long-awaited fourteenth novel in the epic Gaunt's Ghosts series sees the Tanith First dispatched to defend the forge world of Urdesh against the armies of Anarch Sek. After the success of their desperate mission to Salvation's Reach, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First race to the strategically vital forge world of Urdesh, besieged by the brutal armies of Anarch Sek. However, there may be more at stake than just a planet. The Imperial...

Warmaster Horus leads the Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III, but the victory is tainted after Horus's treachery is revealed when the planet is destroyed by virus bombs.