In Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose IV, major plans to restore the crumbling sphinx are paused as the workers strike. In the tedium, two workers take a sunset stroll by the Great Pyramid. Turns out, there is a way to take their mind off their worries...
Bhismirr is a young caravan-guard from the desert country. He has everything in life that he wants: steady employment, enough money for booze, a lover who he thinks will be with him forever. But his whole world is turned upside down when his lover abandons him in an unfamiliar city with only the clothes on his back. Desperately, Bhismirr turns to selling his body for coin, only to find himself plying his wares to men from a rival country, a people who long ago once enslaved his people…
In the jungles of Genaria, Marette and Sakala are two adventurers-for-hire. Once they’ve complete their mission to clear out an infestation of spiders from a local temple, they discover a run-down library, and inside, a magical book full of tantalizing spells…
While a storm rages outside the wizard’s tower, the scene is set for a magical ritual: the circle drawn, the candles lit—and the wizard’s captive brought to the tower: a handsome warrior who will need wooing if the wizard wants his willing cooperation…
Richard invites his childhood friend Elliot to see a mysterious room in his ancestral mansion. Elliot doesn’t realize it, but Richard has more on his mind than ancient history…
