The Horus Heresy · Book 48
The Burden of Loyalty
- Published
- 1 January 2018
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9781784967529
- Type
- collection

About this book
"The Burden of Loyalty" (2018) is a Horus Heresy story collection at number 48 in the Horus Heresy, written by Laurie Goulding, and comes in at 432 pages. Like the rest of the Horus Heresy, it's military science fiction with operatic stakes -- brothers destroying brothers, and gods whispering behind the history that becomes 40K's backstory.
Its place in The Horus Heresy
The Burden of Loyalty is book 48 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows Old Earth. It is followed by Wolfsbane. See the full The Horus Heresy reading order.
The Horus Heresy is Black Library's monumental prequel saga to Warhammer 40,000 — the ten-thousand-year-old origin story every 40K fan knows in outline, finally told in full across 54 official volumes by a rotating team of authors. In the 31st millennium the Emperor of Mankind has nearly completed the Great Crusade, reuniting the human galaxy through his twenty superhuman primarch sons and their Space Marine legions. He names his most brilliant son, Horus, Warmaster — then returns to Terra on a secret project…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781784967529