Eventually Pharaoh marries Lostris and her father, Lord Intef, reluctantly gives Taita to her as a wedding gift. Lostris meanwhile is in love with the soldier Tanus, who unbeknownst to her is hated by her father. The Pharaoh of Egypt is without a male heir, and Taita inadvertently causes Pharaoh to take an interest in Lostris. Taita is owned by Lord Intef and primarily looks after his daughter, Lostris, but also plays a large role in the day-to-day running of Lord Intef's estate. River God follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch slave.
It was first published in 1993, and was adapted for television alongside The Seventh Scroll as the 1999 mini-series The Seventh Scroll. The novel can be grouped together with Wilbur Smith's other books ( The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, The Quest, Desert God and Pharaoh) on Ancient Egypt. It tells the story of the talented eunuch slave named Taita, his life in Egypt, the flight of Taita along with the Egyptian populace from the Hyksos invasion, and their eventual return. The second book in the epic Egyptian Series.River God is a novel by author Wilbur Smith. As Royan and Nicholas draw closer to the Pharaoh's tomb, enemies are gathering - people who will stop at nothing to ensure the scroll's promised treasures are kept from Roman's hands. But the men who killed her husband are not yet finished. To do so, she must bury her grief and partner with the eccentric aristocrat Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a man who shares her passion for the ancient world.
When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work: to use the secrets of the seventh scroll to find the hidden tomb of Pharaoh Mamose, and its untold trove of lost Egyptian riches. After three years of work, gone was the proof it had ever existed.Ī hunt for treasure. Her last connections with the seventh scroll were lost. They were empty, of course along with the disks, all her notebooks and photographs were missing. That and all the other drawers had been pulled out and thrown on the floor. She glanced down at the drawer in which she kept all her floppy disks.
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