ETCHED IN STONE
Dimitri Eann
Imajinn Books/Romance
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN No.: 1-893896-12-9, $9.95, 223 pp.
Reviewed by: Lynne Remick
When Egyptologist Jayna Monroe wanders away from her party of diggers, she finds the discovery of a lifetime--a mysterious Pharoah's tomb beneath a sand dune. Drawn inside, she enters, unaware that she will never re-cross its threshold. She has uncovered the fruits of the King's fortune, and is rewarded with nothing more than the sour fruit of impending death.
Jayna's spends the last moments of her life on the floor of King Amony's burial chamber, surrounded by beautiful symbols---hieroglyphs that tell the story of the Pharoah and a green-eyed Queen. Her eyes scan the walls, expecting a story of love and dedication. What she sees etched in the stone, however, is a tale of murder and betrayal. Jayna would take her last breath with the vision of the Queen's cold green eyes in her mind.
Although she believes she is dead, oxygen forces its way into Jayna's lungs. She awakens, not in the bowels of a hidden tomb, but in the midst of a great palace. She knows her name---Jayna, yet those who stood about her called her "Queen" and "Your Highness." She doesn't recognize the faces people who surround her, but she recognizes the murderous green eyes of a Queen, staring back at her in the mirror.
Now, she knows where she is--Ancient Egypt, and even more startling--she's Queen to the man in whose tomb she died!
ETCHED IN STONE takes the reader on a fascinating journey, first into the depths of an Egyptian King's burial chamber, and then back in time, across the hot sands on which he actually lived and walked.
Dimitri Eann creates characters that are realistically ancient, yet believeably motivated and passionate according to modern standards. These characters together with an intriguing setting and well-constructed plot, add up to an a five-star story of conspiracy, betrayal, seduction and love.
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