The Desolate Tomb: A Pick Your Path Adventure

by Matt Beighton, Darwin Setiawan (Illustrator)

The hot desert sand seems far away as you step into the gloomy darkness beneath an Ancient Egyptian tomb. Ahead of you lie tunnels and traps that haven’t been seen by living eyes for thousands of years. Your fate is in your hands as you, the reader, take on the role of a tomb raider and step beyond the mortal realm.
Your promise to Kat Hazel was simple enough back in the rainy streets of London; you would head to Egypt and return with the Golden Heart of Ra. Perhaps the most coveted of all Egyptian antiquities, your fellow tomb raiders have been searching for it for decades, desperate for the praise of Queen Victoria or their own private sponsor. However, now that you stand at the opening to the tomb, listening to the unearthly howls of whatever still roams in the tunnels ahead, your quest seems foolhardy at best.
Whether you return with the Golden Heart or die a miserable death alone in the darkness is down to you, the reader, as you take control of the action in the second Pick Your Path adventure. Roll the dice of destiny and hope that your chosen path is littered with nothing more than the bones of previous adventurers. Whatever you do, choose carefully…

180 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 5, 2022

About the author

Matt Beighton was born somewhere in the midlands in England during the heady days of the 1980s and continues to spend most of his days in the same shire. He is happily married with two young daughters who keep him very busy and suffer through the endless early drafts of his stories.

As an ex-teacher, Matt's knows how to bring his stories and passion for reading and writing to the classroom. He loves visiting schools to share this passion and to help motivate children and staff. Contact him via his website for more information.

His Monstacademy series for readers aged 7+ is popular with boys and girls, particularly those who enjoy Jill Murphy, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling. Now with 4 books in the series and more on the way, it's a perfect time to dive into a school for monsters and find out how Trixie Grimble, a perfectly ordinary, non-monstrous girl, copes.

Love the fantastic worlds of Garth Nix and J.R.R. Tolkien? Enjoy immersing yourself in richly built worlds? Take a journey to Ithilmir, a strange world filled with Goblins, Dark Queens and well-woven mythology, in Matt Beighton's Shadowland Chronicles; a series of fantasy novels pitching young Skye Thistle in an epic battle of swords and sorcery. The Spyglass and the Cherry and the sequel The Shadowed Eye are available now with a third and final instalment to follow.

To find out more and to join his mailing list, visit www.mattbeighton.co.uk