From the bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes Whispers in the Sand set in richly mysterious Egypt where past & present collide. Recently divorced Anna decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great grandmother made in the nineteenth century: a Nile cruise from Luxor to the Valley of the Kings. Anna carries with her on the voyage two mementoes of her great-grandmother Louisa: an ancient Egyptian scent bottle & the diary of that original Nile cruise which has lain unread for a hundred years. As she follows in Louisas footsteps Anna discovers in the diary the chilling secret of the scent bottle & is pursued by the same terrifying spectres as her great grandmother.