In the sun-bleached Kingdom of Khem, a supernatural plague known as the “Red Death” is turning the Nile’s bounty into literal dust. Pharaoh Seti, desperate to appease a goddess who has turned her face away, orders the construction of the Alabaster Gate—a mythical portal that legends claim can bridge the gap between the living and the Ancestors.
Khenti, once the Kingdom’s most celebrated master mason, now languishes in the brutal quarries of Tura, sentenced to a slow death for a crime of passion he didn’t commit. When the Pharaoh’s Vizier offers him a chance at redemption, Khenti is dragged from the dust to lead an impossible architectural feat. But the gate requires a “Heart-Stone,” a celestial mineral hidden deep within the forbidden Mountains of the Moon. Accompanied by a cryptic priestess and a crew of condemned convicts, Khenti must navigate treacherous terrains and ancient traps to find the stone. If he succeeds, he saves a kingdom; if he fails, he will be the first soul cast into the eternal void the Gate was meant to seal
