Anput is a peasant girl with an uncanny way with serpents. When the Pharaoh chooses her as a Priestess of Ra, she enters a world of gold and cruelty where a girl from the mud will never belong. Bullied and falsely accused, she is condemned to die. But death is only the beginning, and Anubis, God of the Dead, has been waiting for her. He's unprepared for a girl who doesn't fear him, or for the truth that she is fated to be his. Ra wants her back, and something dark inside Anput is stirring.