Gideon has no experience outside the decaying Ninth, but she starts to make tentative friends. Harrowhark swears Gideon to silence to keep her mouth shut, provides her with appropriate black robes and skull face paint, and they arrive at the First House as expected, along with the other candidates. She was a foundling that somehow survived a pestilence that killed all the other children of her generation before Harrowhark was born, and the two hate each other’s guts. The decrepit Ninth House that guards the Tomb only has one necromancer, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, and no available cavalier, so they draft the only possible candidate, Gideon the Ninth. As a result, he has called on each of the Nine Houses to send a necromancer heir with their cavalier to the First House for evaluation. The God Emperor has the need of new Lyctors for his service. The second installment, Harrow the Ninth, is scheduled for release in June of 2020, to be followed by the third, Alecto the Ninth. This is Book #1 of The Locked Tomb Trilogy. It was published 10 September 2019 by Tor.com and runs 437 pages. This dark fantasy/science fiction novel is a finalist for the 2019 Nebula Award.
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