In her next exciting adventure, young heroine Bella Balistica tackles secondary school, friendship and boyfriend troubles in London and mysterious evil forces in Africa, where she travels in search of her long-lost father. Bella has just started secondary school. You haven’t got a mobile phone and you haven’t got a boyfriend, Charlie told Bella. Round here, that makes you a bit of a freak. Sometimes, being an individual is hard. With her mother’s mystical pendant and the powers of a Mayan goddess behind her, Bella sets off on a quest to find her long-lost father. But what do the corrupted symbols on a faded tapestry in Ethiopia have to do with the American tycoon Askar Karpov and an elite band of medieval knights? What’s more, what does any of this have to do with an ancient Mayan prophesy and the contemporary world of a twelve year-old Guatemalan girl living in southeast London? Find out in this fast-paced, gripping adventure set against the mesmerizing historical wonders of Ethiopia. It features an exciting new cover design!