Fromtheiconic,bestsellingauthorofTheVampireChronicles--RamsestheGreat,formerpharaohofEgypt,isreawakenedbytheelixiroflifeinEdwardianEngland.Nowimmortalwithhisbride-to-be,heissweptupinafierceanddeadlybattleofwillsandpsychesagainsttheonce-greatQueenCleopatra.Inthismesmerizing,glamoroustaleofancientfeudsandmodernpassions,RamseshasreawakenedCleopatrawiththesameperilouselixirwhoseunworldlyforcebringsthedeadbacktolife.Butastheseancientrulersdefyoneanotherintheirquesttounderstandthepowersofthestrangeelixir,theyarehauntedbyamysteriouspresenceevenolderandmorepowerfulthanthey,afiguredrawnforthfromthemistsofhistorywhopossessesspectacularmagicalpotionsandtonicseightmillenniaold.Thisisafigurewhoruledoveranancientkingdomstretchingfromtheonce-fertileearthoftheSaharatothefarcornersoftheworld,aqueenwithasupremeknowledgeofthedeepestoriginsoftheelixiroflife.ShemaybetheonlyonewhocanmakeknowntoRamsesandCleopatrathekeytotheirimmortality--andthesecretsofthemiraculous,unknowable,endlessexpanseoftheuniverse.
