<Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> The Throne of Fire </Td> </Tr> <P> The Serpent's Shadow is a 2012 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by American author Rick Riordan . It is the third and final novel in The Kane Chronicles series . It was published by Disney Hyperion on May 1, 2012 . </P> <P> This book begins six months after the events of the preceding novel, when Carter Kane and Sadie Kane travel to Dallas the 51st nome, with their initiates and meet J.D. Grissom, the leader of the nome . They tell him that they need a magic scroll from the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, or his nome will get attacked and destroyed by the forces of Apophis, the god of chaos, who will rise, swallow the sun, and destroy the world in three days time . Sadie sees a face in the wall which tells them they instead need a golden box . However, the nome is attacked, and the scroll is destroyed . To save everyone from getting killed, Sadie summons Ma'at, repulsing the forces of chaos but blacks out from the experience, later learning that for two minutes, she had no heartbeat . They discover that all the 51st nome has been destroyed, and all of the magicians killed . At the 21st nome in Brooklyn, they discover that the golden box Sadie was told to retrieve by the wacko magician, is a shadow box of king Tut . </P> <P> Horus visits Carter as a pigeon and hints at a connection between shadows and statues . Carter suspects that there is a better way to execrate Apophis that doesn't involve destroying himself and Sadie, and decides to consult Thoth . He tells everybody at dinner and makes plans to consult Thoth that night, but Sadie makes him go to their school dance . During the dance, Sadie meets with Anubis, and he suggests that the shadow is like a computer backup drive, but Shu, god of wind, and Anubis' great - grandfather separates them . Sadie gets an idea about using Bes' sheut to give him back his ren and restore the god's soul . </P>

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