In the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exquisite Temple of Dendur, a monument to an ancient world, an extremely contemporary debate is raging at a gala dinner: a controversial new exhibit is fiercely opposed by many among the top echelon of museum donors. Alex Cooper measures into this highly charged band of power players and then make a much more troubling finding: a young museum researcher has been murdered, her body shipped to the Met in an historic Egyptian sarcophagus. As well as cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must penetrate the realm of the city’s ethnic elite to find a killer purpose on keeping some secrets buried for eternity.