The Heresy

by J.R. Jackson

"This book explores a period near the end of the 18th Dynasty in ancient Egypt. This was a time of change in attitudes and religion which tore the ancient world apart. When Amenhotep took the throne, Egypt was in it’s golden age. His seventeen year reign plunged the ancient world into chaos. There to save the world stood a single, elderly woman, Queen Tiye, the Pharaoh’s mother.

The story centers around Queen Tiye’s battle with Amenhotep IV’s wife, Ahnkensenamun for the throne of Egypt and Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Anything was possible inside the decadent world of the royal family, including murder, incest and plots within plots. All this for the greatest prize of the era – the wealth of the most powerful imperial nation on earth at the time.

The story unfolds with the Egyptologist, Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. As the treasures of the tomb are uncovered, the reader is thrown backwards in time to the ancient world to watch the plot unfold. At the same time, you see the world of Howard Carter unfold with a strangely parallel plot to wrest the treasures of the greatest tomb ever found away from him."

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First published June 2, 2008