Publisher's Synopsis
After five years of marriage and the birth of their son, Ramses, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Radcliffe Emerson, have traded their archaeological adventures in Egypt for a Georgian house with a garden in Victorian England. Never a conventional lady, Amelia faces her new domestic life with more resignation than enthusiasm, but the unexpected death of Sir Henry disrupts her domestic plans. The widow, Lady Baskerville, enlists the couple to take charge of the excavation led by her husband, who had discovered an intact royal tomb in Luxor. But Sir Henry's death is accompanied by other strange events, and rumors begin to circulate that a curse is hanging over the pharaoh's tomb.
