The Princess in the Crystal Sarcophagus
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Queen Sitamun, and her brother, Amenhotep IV, were with Nebetkabeny in a side garden near the main palace. As expected, To Huy, it all looked quite innocent. He was relieved. Nebetkabeny would be no temptation in the presence of the Queen Daughter and her brother, the future Pharaoh.
As he thought it prudent, Huy prostrated himself on the rough gravel before the stone benches where the three were seated. It was Sitamun who spoke.
“Please rise, young man. There is no need for formalities here in the garden”
“Her voice sounds sweet, like he trill of a song bird,” he thought. When he raised his eyes, they met hers and he felt as though he had been stabbed in his heart by a stiletto. He had never been so close to the Princess Queen. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
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Egyptologists say that Sitamun, daughter of Amenhotep III, disappears from history after she is forced to marry her father. They have found her childhood furniture in the tomb of her grandparents, but no sign of the princess. In Barnett’s third novel, we follow a team of scholars to the jungles of Guatemala and the mountains of Eastern Turkey in a quest for clues to the fate of the Egyptian princess.
About the Author
Charles Barnett has travelled widely, preferring to visit the jungles and deserts of the so-called, Third World Countries. He prefers the hermit life, with one exception. For the past fourteen years he has lived with a seven pound, red poodle. Her recent departure, to live in Heaven, has left Charles with a gaping emptiness. He will never stop loving Gnuf-Gnuf, but she taught him that he can no longer bear to live alone. By the time you read this, hopefully he has found a tiny, red, girl poodle to share his hermit life as he takes the scholars of the Chalice Corporation to the Caribbean, and the mysterious pitch lakes and mud volcanoes of Trinidad, where a lanky, black man lives in the jungle and talks to the Mot-Mot birds.