Excerpt: Apprentice Of The Dead (The Apprentice Of Anubis #1)
Apprentice Of The Dead is set in an alternative (but modern) version of London where the Egyptian Empire never fell and Ani is an unusual female trainee priestess of Anubis. If you enjoy my academy books AND my Forgotten Gods books, then this series is going to be right up your alley (plus a derpy pet jackal...) *** Copyright 2021, Laura Greenwood. *** Nikare and I find our way to the far body, a woman with very pale skin and a bloodied nose. Maybe volunteer bodies is just a fancy way of saying criminals. But I doubt it. The official line of the Egyptian Empire is that a certain level of criminal forfeits the right to life after death and it's an insult to the gods to send them to the Weighing of the Heart knowing they would fail. More likely, these bodies belonged to those who were too poor to be able to afford even a partial mummification, but who didn't like the idea of going without completely. "Stand back, I've got this," Nikare instructs me. I cross my arms ...