Pharaoh Akhenaten has just decreed that in place of Isis, Hathor, Thoth, and all the other traditional gods of Egypt, only one true divinity shall now exist — himself. And so he directs Chenzira the Scribe to Thebes, the capital of the priesthood, to cancel the largest religious celebration of the year, one which attracts hundreds of thousands of worshippers, all believing that next year's harvest and their own survival depends on it. Hardly an enviable task. Especially after word comes that the Pharaoh's first representative has been murdered in the Temple of Karnak. And the killer? None other than the goddess Hathor herself. Can Chenzira and his faithful baboon Mouse survive vengeful priests, a mob howling for their blood, and of course the wrath of Hathor?