Egypt in the fall of 1930- "...Praise Set... a god synonymous with turmoil, confusion, illness, storm... and rage.... A necessary evil..." Dr. Tobin Rider is a scientist, a man of logical thinking, never expecting to unearth something so dark and terrible from the sands outside Karnak. In an unmarked tomb, he has discovered the mummified remains of a woman lying staked to the ground in the shape of a cross- something never before heard of in the culture...