Shen Wan, an archaeology student, touches a broken ankh in the Valley of the Kings. When she opens her eyes, she has fallen three thousand years into the past, to the banks of the Nile, landing at the feet of the young pharaoh Ramesses II.
He is a warrior pharaoh who will soon be renowned through the ages, a god among men revered by all.
But for her alone, he offers every tenderness in the world.
"All of Egypt belongs to me, and I belong to you."
He gives her an Egyptian name: Setira, meaning "the one who fell from the stars."
She knows all of history. She knows the smoke of battle at Kadesh, the immortal love poems carved into temple walls, and how everyone's story ends.
Their love is fate, but love is also a curse.
If she falls in love with him, history will collapse, and she will vanish forever into the sands.
If she stays away, how can she resist this pharaoh who has crossed a thousand years just to be with her?
A thousand years later, an unnamed girl from the East is secretly carved into the vast stone walls of Abu Simbel. Archaeologists of a later age are excavating a love story long buried in time.
