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Twenty-eight-year-old Leona King thinks that she has it made. She has just been married to a distinguished Egyptologist who has a family estate on St. Simons Island in Georgia to boot. Her new husband, Richard King, is a gentleman who courted her in proper style and showered her with gifts despite her humble origins as a “swamper” from the Okefenokee Swamp. She has at last realized her lifelong ambition to make a proper “lady” of herself.

Oh, her new position in life does have a downside! Along with her marriage she has become stepmother to a rebellious sixteen-year-old girl named Margaret. The teenager naturally resents Leona trying to take her dead mother’s place in her father’s affections and is jealous of the time her father spends with Leona. But even Margaret, Leona feels, will come around in time.

One of the crowning glories of Leona’s new life is her ability to travel about when before her wanderings were always confined to a dismal, dark swamp. So she is excited when Richard tells her that Howard Carter, the famed discoverer of King Tut’s tomb, has written and asked him to come to Egypt to help him excavate. The year is 1922, and Leona goes to New York to buy a whole new “flapper” wardrobe in the latest style for the transatlantic ocean voyage and beyond.

But as soon as the King family settles in their new house in Cairo things begin to change rapidly. Leona notices that the normally rebellious Margaret has suddenly turned into a little lady. Instead of ignoring her stepmother and wanting nothing to do with her, Margaret now wants to follow Leona around everywhere like her shadow — to the souk, camel riding, to tea at the British governor’s residence, visiting, and even about the house all day. Margaret even persuades her father to appoint Leona her tutor, though her stepmother never finished high school. Margaret claims that her presence is inspirational and helps her in her studies. Margaret boasts that she wants to be like her stepmother when she grows up. The girl begins to ape her stepmother’s wardrobe! Leona even covers up her keyholes so Margaret won’t spy on her and always wear the same thing on the same day.

Leona hardly has time to adjust to Margaret’s peculiar behavior — which quickly becomes suffocating because she never has any privacy — when she must start adjusting to her husband’s latest eccentricities, too. Richard has always been a scholar, but now he throws himself into his work with such vigor that he totally ignores her. Worse, he fills the house with mummy heads, bones, and other relics from Queen Tuftut’s tomb, which he is excavating for Howard Carter. It is summer, Cairo is stifling, and Leona begins to feel closed in inside her house almost as if she is in a tomb herself.

Then, as if things could get worse, on her birthday her stepdaughter gives her an ancient scroll full of hieroglyphics. Her husband tells Leona it is a Book of the Dead, an ancient Egyptian text full of spells and magic chants to help the newly dead person gain admission into the afterlife, the Land of the Setting Sun. The scroll is to help him avoid getting eaten by the Devourer after his heart is weighed on the scales of truth against a feather and found wanting. Leona has no idea where Margaret got such a scroll. She remembers seeing her in the souk, taking something from a woman covered with dark veils from head to foot with only a claw-like hand protruding.

From that moment on Leona’s once perfect world closes in on her. She finds herself kidnapped, locked in a tomb, nearly driven mad, and tormented by an Egyptian spirit who has somehow been loosed on her. She must fight for her very life. Somehow this spirit has discovered her deepest, darkest secret from her swamp days that she has managed to keep hidden from her husband. Readmore .. .