A sinister, thousand year-old abandoned spaceship hides a world-shaking secret in Taran Hunt’s action-packed adventure novel The Immortality Thief. Forced into joining a mission he doesn’t want to take part in, small-time thief Sean Wren finds himself part of a rag-tag team of ‘volunteers’ forced to retrieve a mysterious prize from the aforementioned ancient spaceship before it’s destroyed in an imminent supernova. With few useful skills under the circumstances other than a knack for languages, Sean is instantly out of his depth but determined to see the mission through and keep his promise to look out for his friend/fellow survivor Benny. When things quickly go wrong however, and the ship proves to be full of horrifying monsters, Sean finds himself caught between a half-starved Republic soldier and an unstoppable alien warrior, not able to trust either but forced to rely on them simply in order to survive.
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Wrath of N’Kai – Josh Reynolds
Aconyte Books’ exploration of the world of Arkham Horror begins in fine style with Josh Reynolds’ Wrath of N’Kai, an entertainingly dark tale of a gentlewoman thief getting more than she bargained for. Countess Alessandra Zorzi has been commissioned to travel to Arkham, where a recently-discovered ancient American mummy is to be displayed, and steal it. What sounds like a relatively simple job, however, is complicated by the presence of an investigator from the insurance company underwriting the exhibition, and the dawning realisation that there’s more going on than meets the eye in both Arkham’s criminal underworld and its wealthy upper class.