Curse of the Boy King

Dr. Clara Hawthorne has spent her entire life haunted by the dead. As a lead curator at the Ashmolean Museum, she possesses an uncanny, scholarly intuition for the artifacts in her care—an intuition fueled by the fragments of ancient Egyptian that have flowed through her mind since childhood, a language she has never studied but understands with chilling fluency. When a clandestine excavation in the Valley of the Kings unearths the undisturbed, cursed sarcophagus of a forgotten pharaoh, Clara is summoned to Luxor to translate the impossible hieroglyphs lining his tomb. But Akhenaten is not merely a name etched in stone; he is a spirit shackled by the agony of betrayal. Bound to the mortal realm by the poison that stopped his heart three millennia ago, the Boy King watches Clara with eyes that have seen the collapse of empires and the cruelty of the gods. As the lines between the living and the dead blur, Clara discovers that her recurring dreams are not figments of a fevered imaginat