This is the story of Tishiba, the sixteen-year-old niece of a rich man in Egypt Ahmose I the pharaoh who had recently lost his wife. is searching for a wife and comes down the Nile to the house where Tishiba lives. Many are fearful of this chance meeting between the Pharaoh and the young girl. This includes Tomett X, taskmaster slave of Greece and Crete; Sophet, nurse maid of Tishiba from the time she came from the Island of Crete, and Tenten nickname the pharaoh gave his devoted astrologer Hentophen. But one man vows not to allow the love to even happen between the ruler and Tishiba. That man is Letenphop the Terrible a man who wanted to force Tishiba to marry him or be sacrificed to the Minotaur of Crete.