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From the lost journals of archaeologist Amelia Peabody comes a chronicle from the "missing years"--a tale of adventure, bravery, and terror.

Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before the Great War. Now, at last, the silence is broken... Read Full Overview

Guided only by a crumbling map that took the Peaboby-Emerson clan to Tarek's oasis a decade earler, they head for the Sudan. There Rames, now 19 years old, realises he must face up to his feeling for Nefret, while his mother and father confront terrible forces secretly arrayed... Read Full Overview

From the lost journals of archaeologist Amelia Peabody comes a chronicle from the "missing years"--a tale of adventure, bravery, and terror. Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before the Great War. Now, at last, the silence is broken and... Read Full Overview