"Hylas and Pirra arrive in Egypt to search for the powerful dagger, but Telemon and the Crows are there too, and they will stop at nothing to find the dagger first"-- Provided by publisher. Includes historical notes.

After a volcano shrouds the sky with ash and causes a severe winter, Hylas, in search of his lost sister, takes a ship to Keftiu to find and free Pirra from captivity. However, Telamon knows something Hylas does not--that Pirra found the dagger of Koronos, and he wants it for himself. Hylas and Pirra, along with Havoc the lion cub and Echo, one of the Goddess's falcons, will have to do battle with the Crows once again.

In the turbulent world of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Hylas, a lowly twelve-year-old goatherd, thief, and outsider, journeys from the Greek mountains to Crete and Egypt, making allies with animals, battling tyranny, and withstanding the elemental powers of the gods of land and sea.