The Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than light. It carried a group of scientists to a small, distant planet―a primitive place called Earth. It’s mission was peaceful observation. But when the ship was destroyed, the Kinley crew found themselves stranded in ancient Egypt, participants in the pageant of life in the time of the Pharaohs. They buried remnants of their technology deep beneath the desert and sent a last desperate message home…Five thousand years later, the Kinley homeworld hovers on the brink of extinction. An enemy that nearly obliterated their race has risen again―now with the ability to destroy them for good. A lone Kinley soldier named Pruit is sent on a desperate mission: to follow the ancient beacon back to Earth and recover the secrets to faster than light travel. It is their last hope. Technology that once allowed them to cross vast reaches of space might allow them to outrun their enemies and find a safe world to call their own. But Pruit’s mission will be harder than she can imagine. Her quest will draw her enemies after her and will awaken ancient foes on Earth. As she gets closer to what she seeks, she will find each adversary willing to risk everything to stop her. Each hoping to steal the knowledge for themselves. The rivals will meet in modern-day Egypt and their struggle will alter the fate of worlds. Nearly 3,000 years ago, the humanlike Kinley sent a team to Earth in a ship powered by a probability drive that got it there in mere months. Landing in Egypt, they befriended the local people and kept a low profile. When their craft was destroyed by a tsunami, they awaited rescue in stasis tanks. Back home, the Kinley went to war with the Lucien, inhabitants of a nearby planet. Only a few Kinley survived, living in domed environments to prevent contamination by the radioactive wastes outside. Of the Lucien, only those in asteroid colonies remained. Both peoples are spiritual and intelligent, but reconciliation seems impossible, and fighting continues for hundreds of years. Then the Kinley decide to recover the technology on the Earth survey ship and dispatch two young pilots, who are deeply in love. Learning of the mission, the Lucien send a Lucien male and a human raised from infancy among them to compete fiercely in finding the old ship's engine. Dayton successfully blends suspense, cultural sf, and Chariots of the Gods -like speculation. — Roberta Johnson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved “ Resurrection is a good, solid science-fiction adventure with crisp, cinematic writing―an imaginative blending of past, present, and future.” ―Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author “Skillful, fast-paced, and engrossing. A great read.” ―Jerry Pournelle, bestselling author of The Mote in God’s Eye , Lucifer’s Hammer , and The Burning City Arwen Elys Dayton was born on the west coast of the United States to a math professor father and a romantic mother, who named her after an elf in the Lord of the Rings. Arwen lives in in southern California with her husband and their three children.