Guild Wars 2... the novel?

Guild Wars 2 is coming soon to a Borders near you. NCsoft has announced that Ghosts of Ascalon, the first novel based on the best-selling MMO game Guild Wars, will be released this summer.

Written by authors Jeff Grubb and Matt Forbeck, the novel takes place in Tyria, the setting of the first Guild Wars game. A mismatched band of adventurers, each plagued by ghosts from their pasts, journeys into the haunted, war-torn kingdom of Ascalon to retrieve a sacred relic that holds the promise of peace between humanity and their ancestral enemies, the savage charr.

Ghosts of Ascalon takes place in the same era as the upcoming Guild Wars 2, hundreds of years after the events of the original Guild Wars series.