Guardian of the Horizon (Amelia Peabody Murder Mystery)

by ElizabethPeters (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $11.54

  Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to flee to Germany to avoid temptation. Then a mysterious visitor changes the plan for the whole family. Set in the Sudan, this is another exciting adventure which follows the Peabody family as they confront all the forces against them armed only with a crumbling map and an important letter...

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $4.33

  Guided only by a crumbling map that took the Peaboby-Emerson clan to Tarek's oasis a decade earler, they head for the Sudan. There Rames, now 19 years old, realises he must face up to his feeling for Nefret, while his mother and father confront terrible forces secretly arrayed against them.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.25

  Unaccountable lost until now, the Emersons' journals chronicling the 1907-1908 season have been discovered, revealing unknown events from Amelia Peabody's remarkable career! Banned from the Valley of the Kings, their excavation at an abrupt end, Amelia and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son, Ramses, and their foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is hopelessly and secretly in love with the beautiful young Nefret, and is prepared to flee to Germany to escape temptation. But a mysterious visitor provokes a change in plans for Ramses and the others. After a decade, Prince Tarek from the Lost Oasis has written to the Emersons, asking for help. His only surviving son is ill with a mysterious malady and his throne may be threatened...Guided only by a crumbling map that took them to the oasis a decade earlier, the Peabody-Emerson clan head for the Sudan. There they will confront forces secretly arrayed against them, and Ramses must come to grips with his feelings for Nefret when she again meets the handsome, chivalrous son.