Blood on the Nile: Daggers of the Pharaoh

The Golden Cage of Empire has shattered.

In 1452 BC, Egypt is the hammer of the world. Under the reign of Thotmes III, the "Napoleon of Egypt," the borders stretch from the Euphrates to the Cataracts, and the wealth of nations flows into Thebes. For Kenamon, a Scribe of the Treasury, life is a series of ledgers and lists—counting the gold, the grain, and the slaves that fuel the imperial machine.+2

But when Kenamon intervenes to save Kiram, a defiant Mitanni chariot lord destined for the slave pits, he commits a treason that cannot be erased with ink. Forced to flee the wrath of the priesthood alongside Elisheba, a cynical Hebrew midwife who sees the cracks in the Pharaoh’s godhood, Kenamon must trade his linen robes for rags and his reed brush for a dagger.+3

Hunted by the fanatical High Priest Paser and the ruthless Crown Prince Amenhotep II, the unlikely trio embarks on a desperate odyssey against the current of the Nile. From the crocodile-infested marshes of the Faiyum to the brutal gold mines of Nubia, they must shed their past identities to survive the "River of Knives".+4

They fled as fugitives. They return as Daggers. As the horizon darkens and a new power rises to challenge the gods of Egypt, Kenamon, Kiram, and Elisheba step out of the shadows—not to save the Empire, but to witness its breaking.+1

Witness the Exodus from the eyes of the exile in this epic historical saga of survival, faith, and war.