Synopsis

A tremor ran through him, a resonance with the ancient stone. He had opened the sarcophagus, and within, not the dust of centuries, but a woman. Nefertiri, handmaiden to Cleopatra, slumbering for two millennia. Now awakened, she carried a purpose as sharp as the obsidian blade she wielded: vengeance against Marcus Constantine, her lover, her betrayer. MacLeod had believed Constantine’s claims of peace. The former Roman general, now a curator of history, dedicated to preserving the past's less