As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to afuture of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. ArchaeologistEleanor Folley looks back to Egypt's ancient mysteries and hermother's inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory, a manwith ghosts and monsters of his own, brings evidence of a crime, taking themboth on a thrilling adventure that carries them from Paris to Egypt, and fromthe present to the ancient past. Uncovering the truth exposes a dangerous gameof life, death, and uncanny powers!