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Of Gold and Shadows  (Times Lost Treasures #1) by Michelle Griep   ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ami Dalton moonlights as a Shadow Broker, dealing in Egyptian antiquities on the edges of places like convenient cemeteries. Out from that shadowy existence, Ami is the daughter of famed Oxford Professor, Archer Dalton, an archaeologist whose expertise is Egyptology. Under her father’s tutelage Ami too has become an expert in Egyptian artefacts. Not that that helps as Ami battles the prejudices against women of her very Victorian times. Ami’s passion is restoring plundered relics back to Egypt. If that’s not possible she brokers for smaller items to have them put in museums rather than private collections. Hence her work as the Shadow Broker. Edmund Price is a successful business man returned from India to take charge of a shipment of Egyptian items that he wants catalogued and priced to sell to any interested collector at the highest price. He needs the money for an Indian friend to fight taxes the E...

Footprints in the Sand  (Lucy Lawrence Mysteries #2) by Pam Lecky             ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ah Egypt! It’s 1887, Lucy Lawrence, now a woman of means travels to Paris and by chance meets renowned charismatic French Egyptologist Armand Moreau. From that meeting it’s a small step to funding his dig at  Sakkâra, Egypt , and sailing on to Cairo. Of course Mary is consumed by dark forebodings. Cairo is everything Lucy dreamt of and more. Unexplained deaths, uncovering a new tomb, stolen antiques and more greet Lucy. Meanwhile Phineas has disappeared, which unhappily coincides with his ex fiancé Alice Vaughan disappearance. What is Lucy to think? Ok, the adventures of Lucy Lawrence have sucked me in and I can but continue! A Storm ARC via NetGalley.                                               Many thanks to the author and publisher.