As Dr. Anne Kramer listens to Randolf Sontime confess to a horrific crime that has shocked the world, she is inexplicably drawn into his story and transported back to the House of Ra, an isolated oasis in the Egyptian desert of a far ancient time, where he recalls his alliance to a beautiful girl named Nefar, whose extraordinary power matched his own, revealing to Anne that their destinies are forever entwined. Reprint.