Renni and Mahu are brothers, but they are complete opposites. When Mahu hatches a plot to rob the tomb of a long-dead general in the Valley of the Kings, Renni is swept into the crime to help his family. But taking the general's heart scarab sets a much greater chain of events into motion, which are governed by dark and mysterious powers. Will the brothers and their friend Balaal manage to return it before Anubis, the god of death, comes to collect their souls? Or will they, and the general, be cast into the Great Darkness forever?

Saviour Pirotta was born on the island of Malta, and decided at a very young age to become an author. He studied drama and scriptwriting before emigrating to England, where he settled first in London and then in Yorkshire. His fiction and picture books have been translated into twenty-three languages and been bestsellers in America, Greece, Italy, and Brazil. In the UK he has won awards for his middle grade fiction. Despite a heavy writing schedule, Saviour enjoys visiting schools, libraries and literary festivals, and in 2018 and 2019, he visited schools in the Middle East, where he discovered hundreds of young fans.