"Peters really knows how to spin romance and adventure into a mystery."
--Philadelphia Enquirer

"Bursting with surprises, a sheer delight."--Publisher's Weekly

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her Egyptologist husband
Emerson, and their precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the
Black Pyramid is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind sweeping through Cairo. The
brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death
have alerted Amelia to the presence of a notorious looter of the living and the dead.