Emma and the Egyptian Queen

Emma is a twelve-year-old with an attitude. After her incredible adventures on the river of time, she no longer puts up with nonsense from the older boys and girls in her school. Her cousin Peter, a year older and now her close neighbor, isn’t so resilient. The boys pick on him mercilessly, but the girls detect something about Emma. They understand she doesn’t put up with nonsense. Their solution is to simply ignore her.

Then Emma discovers a golden bracelet hidden on her school bus, left behind by wheelchair-bound Trudy LaChance who died in the last row of the bus on the last day of school the previous year. To her astonishment, Emma learns that the bracelet now allows her to control her travels through time. She once again enlists a dubious Peter to travel with her into the past where they meet Sherlock Holmes in Victorian London and encounter a mysterious mummy in the British Museum. The mummy comes to life as Queen Nefertiti, who was buried alive in the sarcophagus by an evil priest. She begs Emma and Peter to help her return to ancient Egypt and retrieve her throne.

They soon find themselves traveling back more than three thousand years to the land of the pharaohs. They meet young Tutankhamun, confront vicious priests and help Queen Nefertiti fight an uprising. Under siege following a mighty battle, all seems lost, until they receive the unexpected aid of Sherlock Holmes.

Emma and the Egyptian Queen is Book Two in the River of Time series. Next is Book Three: Emma Rescues Winston Churchill.