When they finally find the sun god, he is a shell of his former self, and the search has taken so long that they’ll never make it to the Twelfth House in time. Zia and Walt return to Brooklyn to defend the house from Menshikov’s minions while Carter, Sadie, and Bes enter the Twelve Houses of the Underworld to find the three aspects of Ra and combine them. The group temporarily defeats Menshikov, just in time to begin their search for Ra. After their own struggles retrieving the final piece of the book, Sadie and Walt rush to Carter’s rescue with the assistance of another god.

Carter frees Zia, but the blast of magic he uses alerts Menshikov to his location. Against Sadie’s better judgment, Carter and Bes go find Zia while Sadie and Walt (a trainee she has a crush on) search for the final piece of the Book of Ra. Carter, who developed a close bond with Zia’s shabti, won’t continue the mission without rescuing Zia first. Set revealed the location of Zia Rashid, a magician from The Red Pyramid who was revealed to be a shabti (clay replica) while the actual Zia had been hidden in an enchanted sleep for her protection. Using powerful magic, Sadie manages to heal her brother, but the incident costs them an entire day. In the battle to escape Menshikov’s stronghold, Carter is poisoned. There, they learn Menshikov has enlisted the help of Set, the god of chaos. Her celebrations are interrupted by angry gods trying to stop her and Carter from waking Ra, and the kids are rescued by Bes, the Egyptian “dwarf” god (the god’s preferred term), who leads them to Russia and the second piece of the book. Leaving a trail of destruction in their wake, the kids retrieve the scroll and return to the Brooklyn magician headquarters, where they learn an evil magician from Russia, Vladimir Menshikov, is amassing an army to defeat the Brooklyn magicians and wake Apophis, the serpent of chaos.Ĭarter wants to begin their search for the rest of the Book of Ra immediately, but the following day is Sadie’s birthday, and she refuses to spend it hunting for artifacts.

As the book opens, the siblings and two of their recruits break into a museum to retrieve part of the Book of Ra, the scroll that will let them awaken the god Ra to fight the forces of chaos in just a few days. Following a call for other descendants of the Egyptian pharaohs to join them in Brooklyn, Carter and Sadie Kane have begun training other kids to use the magic of their bloodlines. The Throne of Fire opens a few months after the end of The Red Pyramid.

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