The House of Two Sisters

A young Victorian Egyptologist traverses the Nile River on a mission to undo a curse that may have befallen her family in this spellbinding novel. ΓÇ£An intoxicating tale of adventure and obsession,told in prose that shimmers like the Nile . . . I loved it.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöEmilia Hartauthor of Weyward Essex1887. ClementineΓÇÖs ability to read hieroglyphs makes her invaluable at her father’s Egyptian relic partieswhich have become the talk of the town. But at one such partythe words she interprets from an unusual amulet strike fear into her heart. As her childhood games about Isis and NephthysΓÇösister goddesses who protect the deadΓÇötake on a devastating resonance in her lifeand tragedy slowly consumes her loved onesshe wonders what she and her father may have unleashed. Five years laterClemmie arrives in Cairo desperate to save what remains of her family back home. Thereshe meets a motley crew of unwitting English travelers about to set sail down the NileΓÇöincluding an adventurer with secrets of his ownΓÇöand joins them on a mission to reach Denderaha revered religious sitewhere she hopes to return the amulet and atone for her sins. With each passing dayshe is further engulfed in a life sheΓÇÖs yearned for all along. But as long-buried secrets and betrayals rise to the surfaceClemmie must reconcile the impossibility of living in the light while her past keeps her anchored to the darkness.