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Guardian of the Glyphs: The Daughters of Empire Series, Book 13 - Rose Sandy

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ABOUT THE SERIES

Uncover Imperial Secrets with Rose Sandy’s Daughters of Empire Series

Daughters of Empire is a high-energy, female-led action-adventure and espionage series by Rose Sandy for readers who love smart heroines, global stakes, and stories that aren’t afraid to dig into the shadow side of empire. Set in the aftermath of the British Empire, the series follows three extraordinary women — Sania, an Indian cyber-sleuth, Adisa, an African field operative, and Inaya, a Middle Eastern corporate-intel expert — recruited into a covert taskforce to expose the crimes, thefts, and cover-ups hidden in imperial archives.

As they chase looted artefacts, suppressed files, offshore fortunes, and powerful families desperate to stay untouchable, the women must confront not only today’s enemies, but the ghosts of colonialism itself. Each book is a globetrotting mission featuring secret auctions, vault break-ins, diplomatic cover, ancient codes, and dangerous men with old money and older grudges.

SERIES READING ORDER

Daughters of Empire Series Reading Order

Book 1: Legacy of Loot
Book 2: Silent Pledge
Book 3: Shadows of the Sun
Book 4: The Sapphire Conspiracy
Book 5: The Paper Empire
Book 6: The Queen's Labyrinth
Book 7: Codes of the Colony
Book 8: Crimson Contracts
Book 9: The Monarch's Masquerade
Book 10: Sovereign Silhouettes
Book 11: The Colonial Compass
Book 12: The Coin's Other Side
Book 13: Guardians of the Glyphs
Book 14: The Empire's Echo
Book 15: Beneath the Banner
Book 16: The Crown's Chalice
Book 17: Museum of Mysteries
Book 18: Colonial Constellations
Book 19: Diary of the Dispossessed
Book 20: Waltz of the Winds
Book 21: The Opium Oracle
Book 22: Emissaries of the Enigma
Book 23: The Golden Galleon Gambit
Book 24: Realm of the Rune
Book 25: The Empire's Exile
Book 26: Viceroys' Vendetta
Book 27: The Colonial Clockwork
Book 28: The Empire's Eclipsed
Book 29: The Coded Chronicles
Book 30: Pawns of the Palace

• • Book 31: The Sovereign’s Syndicate

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Ancient scripts hold modern secrets. Decoding them could cost everything.

When a renowned linguist is murdered in her Oxford office, the only clue is a photograph clutched in her hand: hieroglyphics that don't match any known ancient language, carved into a cave wall in a former British colony.

The symbols aren't decorative. They're coordinates.

Within 48 hours, three more scholars specializing in colonial-era archaeology turn up dead—each one killed while researching the same mysterious script. Someone is systematically eliminating anyone who can read the glyphs.

The agency's investigation reveals a chilling pattern: these symbols appear at sites across former colonies where indigenous populations mysteriously vanished during imperial expeditions. Official reports blamed disease. The glyphs tell a different story.

Racing to decode the ancient messages before the killers silence the last surviving experts, the team embarks on a globe-spanning hunt through forgotten dig sites and forbidden ruins:

Sania employs AI pattern recognition to crack the linguistic code, discovering the glyphs aren't ancient at all—they're a modern cipher disguised as indigenous writing, created to hide something the Empire desperately wanted to keep secret.

Adisa ventures into remote jungle territories where colonial expeditions once searched for mythical sources of power, navigating territories still guarded by descendants who remember what the Empire tried to steal—and what they killed to conceal.

Inaya infiltrates a secretive archaeological foundation funding expeditions to these exact sites, uncovering a network of treasure hunters, occult enthusiasts, and intelligence operatives all racing to find what the glyphs protect.

As they decipher each symbol, a terrifying truth emerges: the Empire didn't just exploit colonies for resources—they conducted covert expeditions searching for artifacts and knowledge systems that could grant strategic advantages. Some of what they found was so dangerous, they created an entire false mythology to bury it.

Now a well-funded organization is retracing those expeditions, determined to claim what the Empire couldn't. And they're led by someone from the team's past who knows exactly how they think.

Some secrets were carved in stone to survive the ages. Others were meant to stay buried forever.

GUARDIANS OF THE GLYPHS delivers pulse-pounding archaeological adventure and cryptic intrigue in a race against time where ancient mysteries collide with modern conspiracy. For fans of INDIANA JONES, UNCHARTED, and THE DA VINCI CODE who crave action-packed treasure hunts with brilliant heroines.

The greatest power isn't found in lost tombs. It's in keeping their secrets from those who would weaponize them.

Meet the Author

Rose Sandy is an international thriller and adventure author who writes high-velocity stories about brilliant women taking on the world’s most powerful institutions. From secret archives and looted artefacts to covert taskforces and royal scandals, her books blend espionage, history, and heart. She’s especially interested in the legacies of empire — who controlled the narrative, who profited, and whose stories were erased — and she puts those questions in the hands of fearless female protagonists.

In the Daughters of Empire series, Rose brings together three women from across the former British Empire — a hacker, a spy, and a corporate infiltrator — and lets them do what history never allowed: expose the truth. Her fiction is fast-paced, globally set, and rooted in real-world global happenings, but always centred on sisterhood, justice, and women who refuse to be silenced.

When she’s not plotting international conspiracies on the page, Rose champions diverse storytelling, mentors authors, and builds publishing experiences through Silver Gravity Entertainment.

Tropes You'll Love

female-led espionage thriller, artefact heist adventure, secret government taskforce, colonial-era mystery, found-family team of operatives, cyberhacker heroine, spy in high society, race-to-the-file plot, enemies in the British establishment, international action & intrigue, stolen heritage recovery, codebreaking and archives, billionaire cover-up, slow-burn attraction on the mission, women taking down empire from the inside

Perfect for fans of action-adventure with brains, Dan Brown–style secrets, slow-burn team dynamics, and international thrillers that centre women.