Summary: Ranofer loved his life as the apprentice to a goldsmith, but after his father’s death, Ranofer finds himself enslaved to his half-brother, Gebu, and destined to a life as a stonemason. When Gebu forces Ranofer to begin committing crimes with him against the Egyptian throne, there is nothing Ranofer can do and no way to resist. And the punishment for these crimes is death.