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En 1848, tandis que Venise se libère du joug autrichien, le compositeur Alessandro Giacolli subit la cabale du marquis Bulbo et ne peut ni faire jouer sa musique, ni adopter le fils de sa sœur défunte. Un an plus tard, alors que sombre l'éphémère république, il est contraint de fuir Venise pour se réfugier à Berlin. Trente ans plus tard, alors qu'il n'a plus composé une note, il envoie sur les traces de son passé son jeune disciple, Jonathan Celnik. Dans sa quête, Celnik, guidé par Asmodée Edern, ira jusqu'à Montechiarro pour retrouver les partitions perdues de Giacolli.

I walked into the wrong hotel room...to a naked man fresh out of the shower. Now, I'm pregnant with his baby. I should've left as soon as I saw him. He was too beautiful to be real. I got halfway to the door… And then he saw exactly what I was trying to hide.

The Adepta Sororitas of the Last Candle have stood vigil over their sanctuary world for centuries, striving to decipher their founder's tormented visions. Outsiders are unwelcome… yet still they come. Decimated by an encounter with a lethal xenos entity, the survivors of an elite Astra Militarum company have journeyed to the Candleworld in search of healing, escorted by a woman who is no stranger there – Sister Hospitaller Asenath Hyades, who turned her back on the order decades ago.

Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia's ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can't understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can't work out why she even cares.