From the author of the classic Hound and the Falcon trilogy (The Isle
of Glass, The Golden Horn, and The Hounds of God) and the World
Fantasy Award nominee Lord of the Two Lands, for the first time in
four years, a new, original, and never before published title--and it is
very special indeed: Three lives. Three worlds. Three times. Three young
women, past, present, and future, come together to solve an age-old
mystery and save a world. Meredith has the summer all planned. She'll
hang out with her friends, ride her horse, and spend time with her mom,
who is recovering from cancer. Then her mom drops a bomb: she's sending
Meredith to Egypt to dig up mummies with her aunt the archaeologist.
Meredith doesn't want to go. At all. But there are more forces at work
than a 16th-birthday present she doesn't want and a summer she didn't
plan--and a greater adventure than she could ever have imagined. Meru
lives in a far-future Earth, where disease has been eliminated and
humans travel through the stars in living ships. Meru and her friend
Yoshi been accepted into the school for starpilots, but just as they're
about to leave, a strange message from Meru's mother drives Meru away
from her home and family and sends her on a journey to find her mother
and save the people of Earth from a terrible plague. Meritre is a singer
in the Temple of Amon in ancient Egypt. Her people have survived a
devastating plague, but Meritre is foresighted, and what she sees is
terrifying. As she tries to find a magical spell that will keep her
family and friends safe, the gods take one last life--and that life, and
death, resonate through Meredith and Meru to the end of time.
