A young priestess Shepset finds herself in extremely unexpected circumstances— in the embalmer’s workshop, where her body is being prepared for burial. She remembers becoming a victim of intrigues, but her cult’s divine patron chooses her to restore justice with her hands. Together with the Nubian half-blood Nakhth, she will have to unravel a tangle of conspiracies in the Pharaoh’s palace and figure out the cause of the events that led to her death.