Bastet, the cat-goddess of ancient Egypt, has awakened angry from her millennia-long sleep. Egypt in the modern world has become chaotic, and she must restoreorder and balance. Is she mysteriously seeking the aid of Maggie through the goddess's disciples, the myriad of cats wandering freely through the streets, cemeteries, markets and mosques of modern Cairo? But what can Maggie do? She doesn't speak much Arabic, and she doesn't know her way around Cairo. With the aid of an Egyptian boy she has befriended, Maggie must battle powerful enemies--some strange, some all-too-familiar--that are set upon destroying the very life force ofEgypt and her children.