The young priest Meritamun spends his days performing religious duties and maintaining the temple in which he lives, content in a humble life in service to the Gods. His routine is turned on its head when he receives a summons from Anput – the living Goddess of death, and the consort of Anubis. He has been chosen to become her personal attendant, but why, he cannot say. His new role will require him to unlearn many of his assumptions about the Gods, and to open himself up to serving his deity in ways he could never have imagined.