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Plot
The Red Pyramid is a transcript of a recording by Carter Kane, a fourteen-year-old boy, and his twelve-year-old sister, Sadie Kane. They tell their sides of the story in alternating chapters, verifying the story as it is being told. The book starts off with their father, Julius Kane, visiting Sadie in London (she lived with her grandparents since her mother's passing). Julius takes Carter and Sadie to British Museum so that he can "study" an artifact called the Rosetta Stone. Turns out, he was trying to summon an Egyptian god of the Underworld, Osiris, using the stone as an anchor. By mistake, he lets out Set, the god of madness along with four other important gods. Set imprisons Julius, and this begins their adventure to save their father and the world.

A man named Amos appears and tells them that he is Carter and Sadie's father's brother. He takes them to Brooklyn, New York. Later, he says that he is off to find Set. They use this time to search the library in the mansion for answers and discover that they are from a long line of pharaohs from both sides of their families. While they are in the library, they hear noises and they run out and see that the house is being attacked by leopard serpents (serpopards). Muffin turns out to be a host of a cat goddess named Bast and fights off the serpopards, but they now must run. They run to Manhattan and enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Bast attempts to have them enter the Duat - a realm of magic under the mortal realm. But before she could, the scorpion goddess fights, and almost defeats Bast. As a result, Bast flees for safety in the Duat, leaving Carter and Sadie alone.

A girl named Zia appears protects the two from Serqet and strips the evil goddess from her host, but only for a short amount of time. But they escape in time to open a portal to the First Nome of the House of Life. Zia takes them to meet Chief Lector Iskander, the leader of the House, and second-in-command, Desjardins, they are brought up to believe Sadie and Carter are hosting gods. Iskander explains to Sadie about hosts and gods the night before his death. Zia trains the two the next day to use combat magic and to cast spells through hieroglyphics. Their training gets disrupted when a messenger informs Zia about Iskander's death and Desjardins goes to take the place of Chief Lector. Zia knows this means that Desjardins will send magicians to kill Carter and Sadie, so she opens a portal to Paris so they could escape. Bast comes back and takes them to Desjardins's home to steal a book that could give them answers on how to defeat Set. As a result, fruit bats are sent after them and they run for the closest museum, the Louvre. They open another portal and Sadie decides that they are going back to the U.S., since that she wasn't specific, they appear at the Washington Monument.

At D.C., the Set animal (named Leroy by Carter) is sent after them and they run away to another airport. Carter defeats Leroy and puts him in his locker in the Duat. They all manage to catch a plane to Memphis, Tennessee to find Thoth, the god of knowledge and wisdom. They received the tickets from Nut, the sky goddess while Sadie was asleep at the Washington Monument.

When they arrive Tennessee, Thoth tells them that they must complete a test in order to get answers from him, which they pass. Thoth tells them that they must retrieve the Feather of Truth from the underworld. They also must know Set's secret name, which contains their identity. Sadie receives the feather from Anubis, the god of funerals, because of her strong attraction to him. They continue from New Orleans to Texas. They reunite again with Amos as well. There, Carter fights Sobek, but is weakened. Bast sacrifices herself in order to protect them.

Then, they go to New Mexico because Geb, Nut's husband, had told them to and because Zia had asked Carter to meet them there. Somehow, Desjardins knew of this and planned an ambush. Zia sends a Pillar of Fire after Desjardins and they escape, but Desjardins sent a warrior goddess after them. Thanks to Zia's quick thinking, she defeats Sekhmet. They continue to Arizona and they come across a red pyramid, which is Set's main host. When they arrive, they discover that Amos was hosting Set as well.

Carter and Horus become one, equally balancing their power to fight Set. But they were only so powerful, Sadie comes to save the day and learns of the secret name of Set from Zia, who was dying. Sadie threatens Set, just then, Set's serpent appears. The serpent is the host of Apophis, the Serpent of Chaos itself. Carter fights off the serpent, but Sadie is the one that saves them and sends Apophis into the Duat. They go back inside the pyramid to get Zia and discover that she is just a shabti, a clay doll that is used to finish certain tasks.

They return home to rebuild their magical mansion, and Amos leaves for the First Nome to be healed. The two siblings get a sudden visit from Osiris, who successfully bonded with their father. The god of the dead gives them his djed amulet to attract other things. The siblings decide that they will no longer host Horus and Isis, and they are put back into the Duat after placing some of their power back into Carter and Sadie's amulets and they place the amulets in Carter's Duat locker and put the djed amulet with it safely. Carter and Sadie must teach other kids the divine words and the way of the gods. When they return home, they find their uncle Amos and they have gotten an old friend back, Bast.