About the book: year / The War of the Houses has begun. In it, Great Houses and small clans will converge and burn, generals will move their armies into battle, and the Lords will throw everything on the scales to win this battle, which will determine for many centuries who will rule in the Double Helix and beyond. Some will die, some will rise, but woe to those who try to stay away: the black flame of Chaos always takes its toll.