Nic loves to perform magic tricks, but after the girls at school made fun of her, she hid her passion, thinking she-d never be good enough.
When Nic''s class goes on a school trip to the Thames Tunnel to celebrate its famous Fancy Fair, she sees her two bullies vanish. Curious to find out what happened, she steps through a mysterious alcove and finds herself at the original Fancy Fair-over one hundred and fifty years in the past!
Meanwhile, Nikolai-s life isn-t going so well. Another magician has taken his dad-s spot to perform, and his brother, Amos, has gone missing. With rumours of kidnapped children spreading through town, Nikolai is worried. Then, out of nowhere, a mysterious girl appears, claiming she-s from the future-and says that two of her classmates have disappeared.
To solve the mystery, Nic and Nikolai must work together. But can a neurodivergent girl from the present, a magic-student failure, really help a boy who-s a master at designing tricks and pi