SCARAB: A Novel

Kate Norton's comfortable life in Minnesota is turned upside down when she receives a posthumous letter from her mother, translated from Arabic by Paul MacGregor, a ruggedly handsome Arabic professor. Kate has struggled her entire life with feeling like an outsider because of her Egyptian heritage. Prior to receipt of the letter, her mother had never provided Kate with any information on her family in Egypt. Now, the letter and the accompanying bejeweled scarab, an ancient Egyptian symbol o...