**Uncompromising and fierce, Commissar Severina Raine has always served
the Imperium with the utmost distinction but only by embracing her duty
and staying true to her belief in the Imperium and the commissar's creed
can she hope to survive this crucible, but even then will that be
enough? **
Uncompromising and fierce, Commissar Severina Raine has always served
the Imperium with the utmost distinction. Attached to the Eleventh
Antari Rifles, she instills order and courage in the face of utter
horror. But horror take smany forms, and Rains's unshakeable faith is
about to be put to the ultimate test. As the Chaos cult known as the
Sighted sweeps through the Bale Stars and a shadow falls across its
benighted worlds. In answer, a great campaign, led by the vaunted hero
Lord-General Militant Alar Serek is under way to free the system from
tyranny and enslavement, and the price of victory must be paid in blood.
As Raine and the Antari become embroiled in the conflict, dark secrets
are unearthed... Secrets that might cast a light onto Raine's own
troubled past. Only by embracing her duty and staying true to her belief
in the Imperium and the commissar's creed can she hope to survive this
crucible, but even then, will that be enough?
