The Memphis Cycle Series

Once the glory of Akhenaten's reign, the imperial city of Akhet-Aten now lies tangled in the raveled ends of old plots; wrecked, abandoned and rumored to be cursed. When Commander Khonsu is assigned to escort a royal delegation to the deserted capital to investigate reopening its quarries, he finds the task anything but routine, beginning with the expedition's leader, Lord Nebamun, the second ranking priest of Ptah.  Nebamun is a man without a past who has no fear of ghosts, curses or the damned spirits said to prowl the surrounding hills and scream in the night. As Khonsu watches the man move through the echoes of old strife and treachery, he begins to realize that Lord Nebamun has come to put the spirits of the city to rest once and for all, whatever the cost to himself.   But the question that grips Khonsu, as the shadows thicken and the threat intensifies, is whether Nebamun might be a danger to them all. The City of Refuge, set in Egypt after the fall of Akhenaten, is a tale of revenge and renewal, and one man's discovery that the Paths of Righteousness may lie through peril, but they will always bring you home.

Eighteen years have passed since Seti commanded the Royal Army in The City of Refuge. Now he rules Egypt as King.  While Seti is far away to the south, his eldest son is ambushed and killed through a senseless mistake. His family sends word, but it is not delivered. Seti returns to learn that his son is sealed away in a tomb. With grief weighing heavy upon his heart and yet constantly under his subjects' gaze, Seti cannot bear his grief.  He seeks anonymity and healing in a small village only to learn that marauders from the western deserts have been attacking the town, which is helpless to resist them. During that short summer, the greatest warrior king of that dynasty teaches them the art of battle and in his turn learns of companionship, kindness and courage. Mourningtide, the second book of The Memphis Cycle, is a story of loss, renewal and love set against the background of the Valley of the Kings.

Wenatef, an officer and Kinsman high in Pharaoh's service, has been assigned to guard the workers at His Majesty's tomb while it is under construction. Troubled by whispers of robbery and corruption among the tomb workers, themselves, but excluded from their counsels, he finds himself fighting shadows until the night he awakens in utter darkness with the taste of blood in his mouth, his life ebbing into silence.  Wenatef crosses the boundary between life and myth. He had been told "You can't fight these monsters alone. You would have to go to the Land of the West and return with an army." Did he die? Did the gods really step in and take part in unmasking the corruption? Perhaps they did.  Armed with the might of the West, he sets out to destroy the robbers and blasphemers and right an old wrong.  Set during Egypt's declining years, A Killing Among the Dead is a tale of betrayal, revenge and redemption, and one man's discovery that no matter how alone we seem in our struggle against evil, the Great Ones are never far away.

The crash of Pharaoh's colossal statue into a throng of worshippers brings the festival of the good god Ptah of Memphis to a sudden, bloody end. Prince Khaemwaset, the High Priest, barely escapes with his life. He finds clues in the wreckage that show that the disaster was deliberately set. Now he is confronted with questions that grow more alarming with every answer he finds as the great temple of Ptah is rocked by a chilling series of murders.  Increasingly entangled in clues that lead to even more mysteries, convinced that the gods themselves are taking a hand in the disaster, he appeals to Pharaoh for help and is sent a powerful ally in his eldest brother Hori, Egypt's Crown Prince, whose intelligence, courage and cunning are offset by a devastating bluntness.  The brothers fight against time as they try to unravel the mystery, knowing that there is more at stake than treasure, and the forfeit is greater than a man's life: Something great and terrible is stirring, something hidden deep within the temple, something they must find and bring into the light before those who walk in darkness take it and turn it to evil.

It is the time of Egypt's Middle Kingdom..  Egypt is powerful under the rule of warrior kings.  It is a time of exploration, the bright period of classical Egypt. Kheti, once a proud officer of chariotry under the great Pharaoh Senusret III, has returned home, not to glory but to pain and poverty.   Kheti is now a fisherman trying to eke out a living on the Nile.  Despairing and exhausted, he falls asleep in his little papyrus skiff, only to awaken when his vessel is swamped by the waves spawned by the splashdown of an immense crocodile that seems to have fallen from the sky. Kheti, terrified, tries to paddle for home, but the crocodile follows him and is soon living on his family's homestead and bringing in fish every day. Kheti's family prospers from their new member.  But the quality and number of fish is attracting attention, and there is something not quite ordinary about the huge beast.  What sort of being is he?  And why is the night sky growing increasingly dark? Step into the world of The Thirty Cubit Crocodile and savor the wonder and the mystery.