The apparently desolate world of Somneft hides a dormant threat – a tomb of the Necrons that the alien-hunting Deathwatch have vowed to crush before it can surface. Kill teams of specialist battle-brothers force their way inside, seeking to establish the true scale of the threat the tomb poses without triggering a catastrophic awakening that could be the death of worlds. Yet the structure is not wholly dormant. An eccentric Cryptek, active for millennia and aided by her retinue of unthinking thralls, has manipulated the tomb’s strata to her own ends. Twisted with psychosis, she eagerly hunts