The Seven Fabulous Wonders

The Seven Fabulous Wonders is a fantasy series by Katherine Roberts currently comprising seven novels based on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Pyramid Robbery (2001), The Babylon Game (2002), The Amazon Temple Quest (2002), The Mausoleum Murder (2003), The Olympic Conspiracy (2004), The Colossus Crisis (2005), and The Cleopatra Curse (2006).

The novel is set in 539 BC; inside the city of Babylon, known as the Gateway of God, is Tia, the adopted daughter of a perfume maker.

While her sister Tanis is being healed, Lysippe stays in the temple, but she sometimes ventures out resulting in finding a nymph named Smyrna.

Alexis meets the princess and turns her fabled chimera to life and it rampages through the city attacking all who are known as their enemies.

Alexis then goes to the river and reverses his gift and is shocked when his father and his best friend are still real when all of the other statues have turned back to stone.

Boys competing in the Games, the favourites to win (including Theron), are all being targeted by the mysterious Warriors of Ahriman.

Sosi soon discovers that the Warriors are targeting those that are sent dreams by the goddess of victory, Nike, who has manifested herself in the form of a priestess to oversee the Games.

The Warrior of Ahriman reveals his plan to sacrifice Nike to arise an army from the dead, Sosi has to embrace his curse.

He turns into a snake, and calls Zeus to bring his thunderbolt down on the Warrior, just like his past incarnation, Sosipolis, did 36 years ago.

When the Warrior is defeated, fears arise that Soksi will go to the same fate as Sosipolis and be unable to change back from a snake.