Guardian of the horizon - Elizabeth Peters

discovered, revealing hitherto unknown events from Amelia

Peabody's remarkable career! Banned from the Valley of the

Kings, their excavation at an abrupt end, Amelia and her

distinguished husband, Emerson, have returned to England with

their son, Ramses, and foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly

in love with Nefret and about to flee to Germany to escape

temptation. But a mysterious visitor provokes a change in plans

for Ramses and the others. After a decade without contact, Prince

Tarek from the Lost Oasis has written to the Emersons, asking for

help. His only surviving son is ill, and his throne may be

threatened . . . Guided by only a crumbling map that took them

to the Oasis a decade earlier, the Peabody-Emerson clan head for

the Sudan. There they confront forces secretly arrayed against

them; there Ramses must face up to his feelings for Nefret.