Beautiful Egyptologist Erica Baron is mesmerised by a centuries-old statue in a Cairo antique shop and believes she has found the key to a dazzling hoard of untapped treasure. But there are others, more ruthless and corrupt than herself, who are determined to get there first, whatever the cost...

Lost in a deadly web of intrigue and murder, she races to unlock the secret of the unknown pharaoh's tomb and plumb the curse that has kept it intact since time began...