The Assassin in My Bed

As a child, Galo watched his father Kai die a captive of Pharaoh Rameses—the tyrant who destroyed their homeland of Nubia. Years later, armed with a face identical to his father’s, Galo infiltrates the palace and closes in on the paranoid ruler, turning the Pharaoh’s suspicion into a blade against his enemies. Exposure, imprisonment, and torment cannot break him, and his staged death drives Rameses to madness. When a scarred Galo returns two years later bearing poison, Rameses—who has known the truth all along—drinks it willingly, binding them together in death and leaving Galo the throne. Revenge complete, Galo sits upon the golden throne at last, forever the dead tyrant’s prisoner.

As a child, Galo watched his father Kai die a captive of Pharaoh Rameses—the tyrant who destroyed their homeland of Nubia. Years later, armed with a face identical to his father’s, Galo infiltrates the palace and closes in on the paranoid ruler, turning the Pharaoh’s suspicion into a blade against his enemies. Exposure, imprisonment, and torment cannot break him, and his staged death drives Rameses to madness. When a scarred Galo returns two years later bearing poison, Rameses—who has known the truth all along—drinks it willingly, binding them together in death and leaving Galo the throne. Revenge complete, Galo sits upon the golden throne at last, forever the dead tyrant’s prisoner.