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A frequent #1 on Amazon’s Ancient Egyptian History bestseller lists.

323 B.C., Babylon

King Alexander the Great has died, and his bloodthirsty generals quarrel for the pieces of a vast empire.

But in Babylon, a thousand miles away from home, Captain Deon faces his own nightmare: a vicious lender threatens to sell his wife and young daughter into slavery if he does not clear his crippling debt.

Hope glimmers when the dead king’s wily secretary dangles a quest that promises not just a respite from his debt but a retirement in luxury.

But the mission is a lie.

Thrust into the murky waters of succession, deceived and threatened by the man he trusted, Deon has only one choice: to accept a dangerous new undertaking or let his family perish in the brutal gold mines of Nubia.

Assisted by a companion as skilled in tongues as she is with a dagger, and pursued by malignant forces that will stop at nothing, Deon must now cross violent lands to find an astonishing mystery hidden for a thousand years.

And yet at the doorsteps of the ultimate prize awaits a haunting dilemma: is the death of a million innocents worth the life of his family?

A thrilling epic of Egypt and Atlantis, with an end you’ll never see coming!

~1550 B.C., Kingdoms of Egypt and Atalanni.

In the Kingdom of Egypt across the Great Green Sea, a new young Pharaoh is taking the reigns to restore the glory of the empire by expelling the wretched Hyksos, the foreign rulers whose odious presence fouls the North. He sees the Atalanni as allies, and hopes that he can fight the Hyksos with their help.

But the gods of the Atalanni have other plans.

When the earth trembles and lava erupts from temple floors in the Atalanni capital, the powerful Oracle announces that the gods are displeased. The empire must expand its dominion, she says, or the Atalanni will face their wrath.

Sent away to fight the formidable Pharaoh, Atalanni General Teber will soon learn that nothing is as it seems as duty conflicts with morality, treachery hides behind a veil of piety, and hubris confronts cold reality.

And when the fires finally die, a stunning secret will be exposed and one great Kingdom will remain.