As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a
future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist
Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt’s ancient mysteries and her
mother’s inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory, a man
with ghosts and monsters of his own, brings evidence of a crime, taking them
both on a thrilling adventure that carries them from Paris to Egypt, and from
the present to the ancient past. Uncovering the truth exposes a dangerous game
of life, death, and uncanny powers!