Guardian of the horizon
By: Elizabeth Peters.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Peabody, Amelia (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Fiction; Women archaeologists -- Fiction; British -- Egypt -- Fiction; Egyptologists -- Fiction; Egypt -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at home in Kent, England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the teenage brother of their dear friend, Tarek, Prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the charismatic herald brings troubling news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek's heir and conveys his brother's urgent need for help only th Emersons can provide. The family sets off in secret for the land time forgot to a mountain fortress from which they narrowly escaped ten years before.