After their desperate gambit on Holy Terra, Vekh, Cymbry, and company return to the Expanse to rendezvous with The Golden Haruspex. In their absence, dark tidings are afoot. Tales of a new Black Crusade, of skirmishes between the Tyranid and the newly-awakened Necron, and all of them pointing one direction: The Jericho Reach. Knowing that they must hold back the darkness for five years, to give the God-Emperor the time he needs to resurrect himself, Vech turns his sights once more to the unexplored horizon…