Nefertiti's Heart by A W Exley

Nefertiti's Heart (Artifact Hunters, #1)

by A W Exley

Cara Devon has always been curious and impulsive, but tangling with a serial killer might cure that. Permanently.

1861. Cara has a simple mission in London – finalise her father’s estate and sell off his damned collection of priceless artifacts. Her plan goes awry when a killer stalks the nobility, searching for an ancient Egyptian relic rumoured to hold the key to immortality.

Nathaniel Trent, known as the villainous viscount, is relentless in his desire to lay his hands on both Cara and the priceless artifacts. His icy exterior and fiery touch stirs Cara’s demons, or could he lay them to rest?

Self-preservation fuels Cara’s search for the gem known as Nefertiti’s Heart. In a society where everyone wears a mask to hide their true intent, she needs to figure out who to trust, before she sacrifices her own heart and life.

Reviewed by Terri M. LeBlanc on

3 of 5 stars

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Nefertiti’s Heart by A.W. Exley

I have been eying Nefertiti’s Heart for quite awhile. The combination of Egyptian mythology and a steampunk world definitely checks off at least two boxes for this reader.

Cara, our main character, is smart, sassy and independent. She has a dark past that Exley slowly feeds the reader. This is one mystery the fuels who Cara is, how she reacts to the world around her. The character complexity Exley created for Cara makes her leap off the page and makes me want to be her best friend and confidant. I would love to go on artifact hunting adventures with her!

I was NOT expecting for Nefertiti’s Heart to be sexy. For some reason, I thought this was a young adult novel so when Cara meets her match when her path crosses Nathaniel Hunt, a man with unknown motives and a dark past of his own, I was not expecting so much heat. Let just say that when Cara and Hunt end up in a room together, when they are not in mortal danger, the tension ratchets up to 11 and usually someone ends up hot and bothered.

In the end, the many layered story and complex characters kept me reading and looking forward to the next book in the Artifact Hunters series.

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