The Archivist

Egypt 1420 BC...Book One begins when the shadow of a dead man is summoned to the world of the living. On the moonlit banks of the Nile he watches as a boy is pursued. He knows the boy, his name is Ahmose, and he knows the fiend who is trying to kill him...
Only a few months before Ahmose had been working the land on his family’s farm, but everything changes when leaves to attend school in the magnificent temple of Amun in Thebes. Under the watchful eyes of the priests, Ahmose visits the House of Life where the injured are cured by magic and he learns from the sacred texts stored in the House of Books. In ancient Egypt the heart is the seat of all thought and emotion, and listening to the texts Ahmose learns that the gods as well as mortals suffer from love, envy and revenge: prime motivations for the archivist’s murder.