Hardcover, UK First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to title page

The First book in the Kane Chronicles Series.

Since their mother`s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London her brother has travelled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr Julius Kane, One night, Dr Kane brings the siblings together for a research experiment at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead he unleashes Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them-set has his sights on the Kanes. to stop him the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order