The Great War is over, Amelia Peabody is enjoying being a grandmother, and she hopes that for once this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking perilous missions for British intelligence. Amelia is mistaken. Past dangers cast shadows across the seemingly peaceful present, and a new adversary, unlike any Amelia has ever encountered, will chart a course that puts her beloved family in the path of destruction.
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