Deceit Blog Tour: 3rd Installement of Nefertaru's Story by Deborah White

Deborah White is on tour throughout Jan with an Exclusive story about Nefertaru an Egyptian Priestess who appears in both Wickedness and Deceit but her story has never been told. Join in following the stops and read the amazing story.

Read the 1st Installment on The Bookbag

Read The 2nd Installment on Books for Company 

We have the 3rd :) 

The great city of Men Nefer… Memphis. What can I tell you? The first sight of it takes my breath away. Its size is vast beyond anything you can imagine. It stretches out for half a day’s journey in every direction at least!

Asru and I are carried through its streets on a platform lifted up onto the shoulders of four men, their skin like polished ebony. Most impressive of its buildings is a vast white walled temple – dedicated, Asru tells me, to the great god Thoth. Its enormous gates are so tall they make the people hurrying by look small as ants. 

Asru points at the temple as we pass and whispers, “That was once the home of the twenty one spells containing all the knowledge of the great god Thoth. I used to be a dancer and priestess there until Setna took me away. The most powerful of the spells, the 21st, is locked inside an Emerald Casket and my ring is its key.” 

She looks around nervously and lowers her voice further, “Ahmose may be the High Priest of the Temple of Thoth, but it is Setna, High Priest at the Temple of Sekhmet who is feared by everyone in Men Nefer. There were once people who guarded the twenty one spells. They wore rings that are the mirror image of mine. But Setna has become so powerful he has had these guardians banished from the city. He said they were planning to steal the spells from the temple,” she shakes her head in disbelief. “As if they would do such a thing! And now Setna has taken the spells and the Emerald Casket, saying that they are safer in his care at the Temple of Sekhmet! And Ahmose has done nothing to stop him!” 

I shrink back against her and say, “So where is it I am I to live? With Setna in the Temple of Sekhmet too?” 

Asru holds my hand in hers and squeezes it. “Yes, but do not fear – you will be safe with me, until…” Her voice trails off. She looks away quickly. I want to ask her more, but there is no time because we have arrived and Asru is now pointing out the two giant statues of the Pharaoh that decorate the temple’s western front. 

It is as if I were just a visitor and not here for… well, what? To become a temple dancer like Asru? I may be young, but I am not stupid. A priest of the Temple of Sekhmet doesn’t come in person to fetch someone of such low status, so why am I really here? Not just to learn the skills of a dancer, surely? There are any number of young girls who have talent enough for that. No, I have the strangest feeling that I am just marking time… waiting for something momentous to happen.

Read the next Installment on on BookBabblers (on 22nd Jan 2012) 

Title: Deceit

Author: Deborah White / Visit The Website

Format: Paperback

Published: 1st Jan 2013

Publisher: Templar

Buy:Amazon UK / Amazon US / Book Depository

Description:

In the follow-up to the thriller Wickedness, modern-day teen Claire and her seventeenth century counterpart Margrat discover it is impossible to escape the clutched of the sinister Doctor, who breaks the boundaries of time and mortality to pursue them both. Each girl has something the Doctor needs and they know he won't stop until he has claimed it.

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WICKEDNESS by Deborah White BLOG TOUR

Today I am happy to be part of the Wickedness blog tour. We have a fantastic guest post by Deborah White but first here is just a little description about the book.

Title: Wickedness

Author: Deborah White

Format: Paperback/ebook

Pages: 304

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Where to buy: Amazon UK ~ Book Depository

Description:

Wickedness is a thrilling adventure that combines history, fantasy and romance, from an exciting new voice in teenage fiction. It will appeal to fans of Hush, Hush and Twilight as well as fans of historical authors like Sally Gardiner and Mary Hooper.

Two flame-haired girls, both fourteen and living in London, but four hundred years apart. A powerful and charismatic man, an Egyptian mummy and twenty spells written in hieroglyphics on parchment. An emerald casket, a gold ring and a ropewalker. All are united by blood and by a devastating prophecy.

And now I have the pleasure to have this wonderful guest post by the author of Wickedness, Deborah White

Why ancient Egypt inspired Wickedness

The plot for Wickedness grew out of the research I was doing into seventeenth century London. I had no idea when I started out that  anything at all was known then about Ancient Egypt. I certainly hadn’t expected that there would be a brisk trade in Egyptian artifacts. That mummies would be ‘on show’ in London…and that they were also ground up and used as medicine was a fascinating revelation! The middle of the seventeenth century was a period when belief in magic was still part of many people’s everyday life. Even the foremost scientific thinkers of the day, such as Isaac Newton still believed in alchemy and astrology. So it probably should come as no surprise that ‘hieroglyphics’ were invested with magical significance. If only they could be ‘de-coded’, it was thought, then who knew what secrets of the Universe might not be revealed! (In real life we had to wait to ‘de-code’ hieroglyphs until 1799 and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. In Wickedness, the Doctor, luckily, discovers it much earlier!) There was also a widespread belief in the existence of a document called the Hermetica…this also translating into the fabled Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. (Greek god Hermes merged with Egyptian god Thoth) Fascinating stuff! - Deborah White, Author.

Hope you enjoyed our little stop in the Wickedness Blog Tour, don't forget to check out the other blogs (see banner on the right) and check out the next stop over at The Great, The Good and The Bad

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