After an explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, Lady Kara Kensington, her friend Safia al-Maez, who is a curator in the musuem, and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, go searching for answers. What will they find in the lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert?

Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar.