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  • Published: 1 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101970324
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $35.00
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Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris




The tale of Ramses the Great continues . . . A glorious, fantastical romp of ancient times and the Edwardian age--set in 1914, that began with Anne Rice's extravagant and compelling bestselling saga, The Mummy, and continues with this long-awaited new novel in the Ramses series.

From the iconic, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles—Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra.

In this mesmerizing, glamorous tale of ancient feuds and modern passions, Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life.

She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality—and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.

  • Published: 1 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101970324
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the authors

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.