Beneath the Pharaoh's Spell: A Novel of Gold and Blood

Thebes, 1479 BCE.

Berenice of Keftiu is a captive in a golden cage—a foreign cartographer accused of poisoning the High Priest of Amun. The evidence is damning. The court hungers for her blood. Her execution is imminent.

General Peribsen, the Pharaoh's deadliest executioner, is the only man who believes in her innocence. He claims her as his prisoner, vowing to uncover the truth himself. But what begins as a cold interrogation becomes a consuming obsession—a passion that threatens to destroy them both.

Together, they race across the scorched desert and through the labyrinthine tombs of the Valley of the Kings. They uncover a conspiracy that reaches the very throne of Egypt: the priests of Amun are poisoning the Pharaoh, stealing his power, and preparing to seize the crown.

To save the kingdom, Peribsen must choose between his loyalty to the throne and his love for the woman who has stolen his soul. And Berenice must decide whether to trust the man who holds her chains—or break free and face the conspirators alone.

In the gilded furnace of the New Kingdom, passion is a death sentence, loyalty is a lie, and the gods demand blood.