num_pages: 459
description: Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep a young peasant boy studying to be a scribe wants to live a simple life in a Nile hut with his lover Kheperren and their dog Wolf. But Amenhotep IV appoints him as Great Royal Scribe. Surrounded by bitterly envious rivals and enemies how long will Ptah-hotep survive? The child-princess Mutnodjme sees her beautiful sister Nefertiti married off to the impotent young Amenhotep. But Nefertiti must bear royal children so the ladies of the court devise a shocking plan. Kheperren meanwhile serves as scribe to the daring teenage General Horemheb. But while the Pharaohs shrinking army guards the Land of the Nile from enemies on every border a far greater menace impends. For not content with his own devotion to one god alone the newly-renamed Akhnaten plans to suppress the worship of all other gods in the Black Land. His horrified court soon realise that the Pharaoh is not merely deformed but irretrievably mad; and that the biggest danger to the Empire is in the royal palace itself.
language: English
title: Out of the Black Land
publisher: Clan Destine Press