Black Library reveals Ghosts of Cadia sequel and Longshot reissue
Ghosts of Cadia sends Sergeant Darya Nevic back into the fight, while Longshot returns in hardback and Black Library keeps Cadia and Baal front and center.
Black Library used its June 24 roundup to put Sergeant Darya Nevic back on the table, with Ghosts of Cadia picking up the Astra Militarum sniper’s story after Longshot and sending her to Parrescum against heretic hordes. The sequel is set to land in hardback, eBook, audiobook and a Special Edition, and the limited version comes with camouflage-printed page edges and a thematic cover. Longshot is also coming back in a new hardback edition, which makes the pair feel less like a one-off sequel announcement and more like a deliberate Cadian shelf refresh.
That matters because Cadia still carries weight in 40k far beyond the pages of a novel. Longshot first arrived in January 2023 alongside the new Astra Militarum range, opening with the destruction of Miracil, and Black Library has kept leaning on Cadian survivors ever since. Ghosts of Cadia follows that same line: Nevic has already lived through a clash with the T’au Empire, and now her mission on Parrescum folds personal history into the wider grind of the war against heretics. It is the kind of continuation that keeps a regiment culturally alive even when the plastic wave has moved on.
The Cadia push also sits in a longer pattern. Black Library has framed the fall of Cadia as the galaxy-shaping event that helped drive the Era Indomitus, and its earlier Guard releases showed the appetite for that lane. Fall of Cadia got a Mega Edition limited to 1,750 copies worldwide, Honourbound had a special edition limited to 1,500 signed copies, and Shadow of the Eighth kept Minka Lesk and the Cadian 101st in play as they uncovered a relic of the Cadian 8th. This new Nevic sequel reads like the next step in that same campaign to keep Cadian identity tethered to the setting’s present tense.
Blood Angels readers got their own reminder that Black Library still functions as faction maintenance, not just bookstore filler. Mephiston: The Box Set gathers all three novels in Darius Hinks’s Mephiston series, a line that has been a favorite since Blood of Sanguinius landed in 2017, and The Devastation of Baal is getting a new hardback edition too. Black Library’s Blood Angels material still leans on the chapter’s noble, honorable image and its buried curse, while an official guide’s note that 26 successor chapters answered the call at Baal explains why The Devastation of Baal remains a cornerstone of modern Blood Angels lore.
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