The Tomb of Thoth

A golden tablet. Twelve children. A magician older than the pyramids. Thirteen-year-old Seth Strange has always believed his father's "crackpot" theory: that history has been hijacked. Then Seth wins a place on an elite archaeology expedition to Egypt - and on the second day, a quiet girl from a cliffside village in Mali reaches into a block of black granite and pulls out a cylinder of solid gold, covered in writing older than writing. Within days, a man is dead, the tablet is stolen, and twelve kids from twelve countries are all having the same dream: the people they've lost, telling them to wake up. Beneath the sand lies a sealed tomb that bears the name of a god. Beneath the Sphinx, an ancient engine is starting to hum. And in a London penthouse, a silver-haired financier with very old eyes is preparing an altar for each of them. They are the Children of the Stars - the last bloodlines of the twelve priests of Thoth. And the Brotherhood of the Darkness has waited thousands of years for them to come home. Lost tombs. Hidden kingdoms. Ancient gods who are not God. And twelve kids who will have to trust each other with their lives. The epic Children of the Stars series begins here.