The battle for the sun temples. Pharaoh Amenophis is at the height of power when his eldest son falls victim to an assassination attempt. But tensions soon arise with the second-born, whom he raises to the throne, and the young regent is met with bitter hatred from the powerful priesthood of Amun. For he worships another god, Aton, in whose honour he gives himself a new name. Together with his beautiful and clever wife Nefertiti, Akhenaten sets about building a new capital and changing the empire on the Nile from the ground up. The second part of the great trilogy about the rulers of the New Kingdom