The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)

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Since their mother’s death‚ Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. Sadie lived with her grandparents in London while her brother traveled the world with their father‚ Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane. One night‚ Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a “research experiment ” at the British Museum‚ where he hopes to set things right with his family. Instead‚ he unleashes the Egyptian god Set‚ who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.

Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world…’I guess it started the night our dad blew up the British museum…’ Carter and Sadie Kane’s dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos …Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family’s connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead and buried. And so, unfortunately, are their gods…