Description
Natalia has a secret – her uncle is trapped, and he’s in danger. It seems there is no-one who can help her.
The first night he spent at the Manor, Stephen was pushed into a secret room, saw the mysterious Roman Guardian, met Sylvia and Peter who lived two hundred years ago and got to know Nan and William whose grandfathers fought each other at the Battle of Hastings.

Stephen knows something is going to happen – but he doesn’t find out what until the first day of the summer holidays, when Natalia says she has a problem. At Knightgarde Manor she finds a help team with a thousand years’ experience of rescuing people from perilous situations.

Hearing of their new friends’ adventures along the Arun River and in the South Downs inspires Natalia and Stephen – but can thirteen-year-olds defeat vicious criminals? Natalia and Stephen will need all they can learn in the magical Room of Retrieval, and from their new friends, if they are to find Natalia’s uncle and release him from the people smugglers who have trapped him in agricultural slavery.