when does the serpent's shadow take place
The Serpent's Shadow (Riordan novel) 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.