Recently divorced, Anna Coburn decides to cheer herself up by retracing ajourney her great grandmother made in the nineteenth century: a Nilecruise from Luxor to the Valley of the Kingsnna carries with her on thevoyage two mementoes of her great-grandmother Louisa: an ancient Egyptianscent bottle, and the diary of that original Nile cruise, which has lainunread for a hundred years. As she follows in Louisas footsteps, Annadiscovers in the diary the chilling secret of the scent bottle and ispursued by the same terrifying spectres as her great grandmother.