Gideon the Ninth

Locked Tomb book #1. Published 10 September 2019.

Gideon Nav has spent her entire adolescence yearning to leave the dreary Ninth House. Being "raised" by decrepit nuns and antagonistic retainers would make anyone ready to run off and join the Empire's military. With her sword in hand she prepares to join the Cohort battling in space, but there's one catch to leaving the planet for good. The Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House, Gideon's boss and enemy, forbids her to leave—without her.

The Emperor has called for the necromancy practicing heirs from each of his Nine Houses to gather and try their hand at discovering the secret to immortality. Harrowhark, necromantic prodigy and heir to the Ninth, sees this as her chance to restore her House from the brink of extinction. But she needs a competent fighter to act as her required cavalier.

And so Gideon is coerced to serve the head of the Ninth House in a way she never has before. As the cavalier protecting Harrow from the dangers of the Emperor's Lyctor trials.

The pair travel to another planet where a gothic mansion stands alone in the middle of an ocean. The locked rooms, that are forbidden to be opened by anything other than their designated keys, hold more secrets than anyone bargained for. In a race for survival neither the house nor the other Houses play nice.

Harrow the Ninth

Locked Tomb book #2. Published 4 August 2020.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House, has battled her way through the Emperor's Lyctor trials and emerged victorious, at a cost.

One, it turns out, she's not prepared to pay.

Struck by illness and a decaying mind Harrow is losing her grip on reality. If she ever had it to begin with.

Nevertheless, the Emperor himself takes her aboard his space station, the Mithraeum. But Harrow soon discovers she has only left one haunted place for another. Something deadly lurks within the Mithraeum's halls and something equally as deadly is coming for them through the darkness of space.

Alone and confused amongst new peers and old enemies Harrow is tasked with fighting both internal and external threats. Can she survive both fronts with only her skills in necromancy and her brilliant, but shakeable wits to rely on?

Alecto the Ninth

Locked Tomb book #3. Scheduled to be released in 2022.

PLOT TBA
Declared to be a partial heist story.
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