But having drunk the elixir of life he now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied - for food, for wine, for women. Reawakened in opulent Edwardian London, he becomes Dr. Ramses, the expert in Egyptology. He also becomes the close companion of voluptous, adventerous Julie Stratford, heiress to a vast shipping fortune and the center of a group of jaded aristocrats with appetites...

From the iconic, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles—Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra.
In this mesmerizing, glamorous tale of ancient feuds and modern passions, Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same...