Sethnet, an inexperienced young scribe in training in ancient Thebes, is in the wrong place at the wrong time and inadvertently witnesses the death of Pharaoh Rameses III, apparently at the hands of one of the women of his harem.
Sethnet soon discovers the real killer, however, and, with the help of Tyti, a plucky daughter of Pharaoh himself, he must try to save those falsely accused.
And he may have to sacrifice his own life to do it.
[Softcover edition]