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A goddess stripped of her past.
A woman robbed of her future.
A secret erasing Akhenaten's bloodline.

All Kefera wants is to forget and pretend. Forget the day her mother, the High Priestess of Bastet, was murdered when guards broke up a forbidden ceremony. Pretend she can live quietly, working in her father's House of Beer, and learn to love the man she is promised to.

But when her younger sister decides to unearth the Eye of Bastet and embrace her legacy as a priestess, Kefera is thrust into a race against time. She must save Maibe from the wrath of Aten's clergy and recover the diadem, the goddess's last talisman to survive Akhenaten's purge.

From Bastet's city to the Sun Disk's capital, where death shadows the royal family, Kefera discovers that finding the Eye is only the beginning. Between the oath she swore to her sister and the trust a frightened princess, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, places in her, every choice pulls her in two directions.

To set the Eye upon Maibe's brow, Kefera will have to betray something sacred.

In the end, it may be herself.

• Blood as bond and burden
• Self-sacrifice for family
• Suppressed faith vs. state religion
• Hidden identity / loss of self
• Corruption of power
• Guilt and redemption arc

• Undercover Protagonist / Fish out of Water at Court
• Improbable Friendship with Royalty / Instant Bond
• MacGuffin (religious/magical artifact)
• Predatory Authority Figure / villain with Sexual Sadist characterization
• Star-Crossed Lovers (background subplot)
• Animal Companion with Symbolic/Divine Ties

• Graphic rape / sexual assault
• Graphic violence / on-page murder
• Torture (premeditated)
• Child/sibling permanent injury
• Parental death / grief (referenced trauma, not on-page)