Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent
Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson's desperate attempt to regain digging
rights backfires--and his dream of unearthing the tomb of the
little-known king Tutankhamon is dashed. Now Emerson, his archaeologist
wife, Amelia Peabody, and their family must watch from the sidelines as
Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter "discover" the greatest Egyptian
treasure of all time.
But the Emersons' own less impressive excavations are interrupted when
father and son Ramses are lured into a trap by a strange group of
villains ominously demanding answers to a question neither man
comprehends. And it will fall to the ever-intrepid Amelia to protect her
endangered family--and perhaps her nemesis as well--from a devastating
truth hidden uncomfortably close to home . . . and from a nefarious plot
that threatens the peace of the entire region.