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Overview: Bruce Balfour, PhD, began writing short fiction when he was fourteen, and his first professional sales occurred in 1982 with two stories in Twilight Zone Magazine.
Bruce’s novels include: The Forge of Mars, published by Berkley/Ace in September of 2002. Ace also published The Digital Dead (2003) and Prometheus Road (2004). Burning Season, a modern-day techno-thriller, was published in January 2012.
In 2009, Bruce started his extensive research on ancient Egypt and the assassination attempt on Pharaoh Ramesses III. His new historical thriller, The River of Eternity, was published in January of 2024, along with its sequel, The House of Death. These are the first two novels in The Harem Conspiracy series, soon to be followed by The Revenge of Sekhmet.
When he’s not writing, Bruce is the Executive Director of the Phoenix Forge makerspace in Phoenix, Arizona.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller Historical
The River of Eternity (#1)
1184 BCE. Ramesses III, the crown prince who will become the last of the great pharaohs, is returning home from battle. He will one day assume the throne of the vast Egyptian empire, but the plots against him and his children have already started.
Ray has been raised with the teenage children of Ramesses as their friend, but his own mysterious past exposes him to threats both inside and outside of the Egyptian court.
Ray hopes to become a comfortable bureaucrat, maybe even settling down with the princess Tentopet, but when one of the princes is killed inside the palace, Ray finds himself framed for the murder and forced to run to protect Bull, the oldest surviving son of Ramesses. So begins Ray’s dangerous journey from the snake pit of royal palace intrigue into a violent world of treachery and enemies that will take years to conquer if he can survive.
Even a god can die.
The House of Death (#2)
1184 BCE. Future pharaoh Ramesses III has returned home from war to a palace that is even more dangerous than a battleground – full of threats, conspiracies, and apparent betrayals among his own family.
Ray is being hunted by the police and foreign assassins after being framed for murdering one of the princes. While searching the great city of Thebes for the missing princess Tentopet, who is now in hiding as a dancer, Ray learns that his foster father has been arrested for tomb robbing and may be executed unless Ray can rescue him.
The tense hunt for Ray and Bull, the oldest son of Ramesses, continues through the great House of Death in Thebes and across the vast western desert to the dreaded copper mines of Timna, where few captives survive in the dark and airless tunnels.
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