Iamironman
When grieving linguist Dr. Layla Hassan uncovers fragments of a legendary map said to chart the path of the dead, she unlocks a secret the ancient gods died to protect. The Cartograph of Aaru doesn't just point to the afterlife-it opens its gates.
As the map awakens, so does Anubis, the jackal-god bound by oath to guard the realm of souls. He is a being of shadow, judgment, and impossible restraint...and now he is her only ally.
But a ruthless American collector, Senator Silas Vance, knows exactly what the Cartograph can do-and he will kill to control who reaches paradise, and who is condemned.
Pursued across Egypt by mercenaries, haunted by her mother's mysterious death, and drawn dangerously close to a god who was never meant to feel, Layla must choose: unravel the Cartograph's final secret, or destroy it before it unleashes a chaos older than the desert.
The dead are stirring.
The gods are watching.
And truth has already chosen her.