Robin Ballard: 5 books

‘The Scribe’ is a collection of twelve letters included in ‘The Archivist’ and is part of 'The Lost Spells of Egypt' series. Sepedet, a would be scribe, has kept secrets from her son, Ahmose. Now that he has been summoned to the temple of Amun in Thebes to begin his studies, she decides to...

Two years have passed since Ahmose began his scribal studies in the temple of Amun in Thebes. He is now Sage Ani’s assistant, and together they travel to Pharaoh’s tomb and oversee the correction of a powerful but dangerous text. Despite Ahmose’s best intentions, the all-important promise he...

Egypt 1420 BC....The shadow of a dead man is summoned to the world of the living. On the moonlit banks of the Nile he watches as his grandson, Ahmose, is pursued by his own murderer. The boy is trapped, but soon all will be revealed –– who Ahmose's grandfather really was and the powerful, but all too dangerous document he had once archived.

In Book Two, Ahmose continues the archivist’s legacy. He makes a promise, which he intends to keep –– but good intensions are one thing and fulfilling the archivist’s task is another. It is more difficult than he could have imagined and key bits of information have gone with the archivist...

In 1420 BC Egypt is ruled by Pharaoh, priests speak magic spells, and the dead commune with the living. Secrets are revealed and Ahmose, a scribe-in-training, finds himself bound by a promise once made by an archivist who suffered an untimely end. From the Valley of the Kings, to the edge of the Delta,...