Archeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell and her young assistant Ari Morgan first appeared in The Crystal's Curse as they searched for the story of Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Cass and Ari return to the Valley of the Kings in search of the missing eye from Nefertiti's three-thousand-year-old bust. Cass is determined to restore the queen's perfection and return the bust from Berlin to the Egyptian people. Leftover Hitler Youth and cutthroat antiquity thieves pursue the two from Germany to Egypt to New York City. Did the eye ever really exist? Can Cass persuade Germany to return the queen to Egypt? Will Cass and Ari's relationship deepen? Join the two antiquities sleuths in their quest for answers.