And the Hills Replied

The last thing that Elizabeth de Burgh de Bruys, Queen of Scotland, remembers isfalling into a caldera and burning up. But now, as she opens her eyes, she is amazed to find herself in an unknown land. Even more bizarre is the fact thatshe knows the handsome man standing before her, as she has just followed himinto this strange world. She hopes that he might know who she is and what hashappened. The young man, it seems, is Moses, a seeker of knowledge who has come toAmarna in Egypt to learn from Niul, a teacher and prince whose fathersmonumental blunder has brought him eternal retribution. As Niul and hisfavorite pupil, Scota, eldest daughter of the Pharaoh, witness the historic conflictbetween Moses and the Pharaoh, they know they will soon be caught in thecrossfire of a battle of the gods. They prepare to flee and build a new nationtakingwith them a mysterious stone that was once an infant child, intimately connected to Elizabeths past and future. In this historical fantasy, a special stone begins to melt away, revealing one with thepower to change the world and transform a myth into reality, as a sentinel posts, a mother awaits her fate, and a Scythian prince wonders if he knows too much.