This story starts in 1346 BCE in Egypt, known then as the Land of the One River. During the reign of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, Thutmose was his Master of Works. A gifted artist, he was the start, along with his mate Hasna, of a people known in these stories as the Kin. All but Thutmose arose from the author's imagination. These are stories of gifted men and women and how they survived in tough times. Along the way, we will meet many - the greedy, the power hungry, the foolish, the wise, the young, the old, those in the grip of passions. In other words, human beings living their lives as best they can. This, Volume 1, has the origin story and then the stories of Thutmose's descendants into the fourth generation.