The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog

Summary

For the first time in many years, Ramses chooses not to accompany his parents on their yearly Egyptian excavation. At the tender age of 11, he has fallen in love with 13-year-old Nefret, the auburn-haired beauty the Emersons rescued from the clutches of the ancient city of Napata. Nefret is now safe in England where Ramses can keep a watchful eye on her. Ramses’ new obsession does not deter him from putting in his two cents worth, however, in a series of lengthy epistles to Egypt, containing enough elaborate syntax and romantic ardor to stretch his mother’s patience to the very breaking point.

Her son’s budding affaire de coeur reminds Amelia of her once-tumultuous romance with Emerson. She is hopeful that their time alone together will rekindle old flames. But Emerson is ambushed, kidnapped, and severely wounded on the road to Luxor. Rescued, and squirming under Amelia’s gentle ministrations, Emerson wastes little time in recovering his irascible nature, but he seems to have no recollection of whom she is!