An exhilarating novel about a strong woman during the great excavations in Egypt by Spiegel bestseller author Martina Sahler.

England, 1921: The last wish of her beloved father, the renowned Egyptologist Richard Parker, brings young Victoria and her thirteen-year-old brother Jamie to distant Cairo. This is much to the dismay of her traditional fiancé, who would prefer to marry the headstrong beauty sooner rather than later.

Impressed by the excavations in the famous Valley of the Kings and the search for the tomb of Tutankhamun, Victoria immerses herself in the foreign world along the Nile. She meets the reserved yet fascinating Lucas Hodgson and becomes part of his excavation team as an illustrator - thoughts of returning to England become increasingly distant. But then her fiancé appears in Cairo.