Holland, Cecelia

From the acclaimed historical novelist, a huge, enthralling work of imagination, her most powerful book-a riveting story that takes us back more than three thousand years into the life of a prehistoric clan and into the mysteries of Stonehenge, one of the world's most enduring enigmas.

Widowed on the trek west to California in the early 1840s, Cat Reilly is forced to take whatever work and friends she can find.

A fictionalized account of the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter dramatizing his relationship with his upper class British patron Lord Carnarvon and with the bureaucracy of modern Egypt, and featuring flashbacks to King Tut's ancient Egypt.