Bestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert the
woman who took the very first step into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun and who lived in the
real Downton Abbey Highclere Castle and the long after-effects of the Curse of Pharaohs. Lady
Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon brought up in stunning Highclere
Castle. Popular and pretty she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage but she had other
ideas. Instead she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the
Egyptian desert where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist working alongside her father
and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922 their dreams came true
when they discovered the burial place of Tutankhamun packed full of gold and unimaginable
riches and she was the first person to crawl inside for three thousand years. She called it
the greatest moment of her life-but soon afterwards everything changed with a string of
tragedies that left her world a darker sadder place. Newspapers claimed it was the curse of
Tutankhamun but Howard Carter said no rational person would entertain such nonsense. Yet fifty
years later when an Egyptian academic came asking questions about what really happened in the
tomb it unleashed a new chain of events that seemed to threaten the happiness Eve had finally
found.
