A Crown of Flies

The Nile has turned to blood. Egypt did not listen. Now the judgment continues.Nefira has crossed a line she can never uncross.Once a faithful record-keeper in Pharaoh's Egypt, she now keeps a second history hidden beneath her own home-a forbidden account of the names Egypt erased, the deaths it disguised, and the choices its rulers would rather call accidents.Her husband, Khepri, has crossed a line of his own. An officer sworn to preserve Pharaoh's order, he has deliberately corrupted an official investigation to protect his wife. His superiors may accept his explanation. His brother Hori does not.And Egypt has far greater problems.The frogs are coming.Into kitchens. Into sleeping chambers. Into temples and palaces. Into places the Egyptians believed their gods would protect.What begins as infestation becomes something far worse as plague follows plague and the foundations of Egyptian life begin to fracture. Priests confront powers they cannot explain. Officials struggle to preserve an order that is failing around them. The Hebrew resistance moves quietly beneath the chaos. And Nefira and Khepri find themselves drawn ever deeper into a conflict between the kingdom they have always served and the truth they can no longer ignore.Meanwhile, the powers Egypt calls gods are beginning to understand something terrifying.They are not the greatest powers in Egypt anymore.A Crown of Flies is Book Two of When the Gods Fell, an adult biblical historical-fantasy series that retells the Exodus from inside Egypt-through the soldiers, scribes, priests, families and forgotten people who watched their world come apart.The river became blood. Now Egypt begins to fall.