An immortal's darkest secret. A brother's ten-thousand-year hatred. A woman who refuses to look away.

Thebes, 1300 BCE. Something is feeding on the priests of Amun-Ra.

Naramnû arrives in Egypt's holiest city disguised as a Cretan physician, drawn by whispers of corruption spreading through the temple complex. What he finds is worse than feeding—it's familiar. The wrongness pulsing beneath the sacred ground carries a signature he recognizes. A presence he helped imprison ten thousand years ago.

His brother is waking.

Shamashum was supposed to be destroyed. The binding that trapped him was designed to consume him over millennia, erasing the monster who wanted to enslave humanity. But the binding is failing. The priests who should maintain it have forgotten their purpose. And someone is actively helping the prisoner break free.

Isetnofret is a practitioner of forbidden arts, keeper of knowledge the temples have tried to suppress for eight thousand years. When Naramnû removes his mask and shows her his true face—white hair, silver-black eyes, the mark of something older than Egypt—she doesn't run. She reaches for more.

Together they descend into the darkness beneath the temples, where geometries hurt to perceive and time itself has gone wrong. Where a prison built by twelve Annunaki strains against the hatred of its occupant. Where the only way to end the story may be to become part of it.

Shadow of Thebes is dark historical fantasy for listeners who want their immortals ancient and complicated, their magic systems grounded in belief, and their love stories written in blood.

Contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence.