Wallace family is a happy family and one of the wealthiest in quiet County Armagh.<br />Until the story changes.<br />A curse hits the Wallaces when Martin is only three years old. And his father disappears forever.<br /><br />Ten years later, Martin is in search of the truth.<br />A Dark Lord would have snatched his father for a gem. It would all be explained by what, long ago, would have arisen in the place of Martin&#39;s house, at number 3 of Mainmatch Road.<br />But nothing could ever happen without reading the book &#39;Emain Macha, the hidden truths&#39;. Nothing could be discovered without uncovering the secret passages around Lake Neagh. No journey could ever begin other than through the Mirror-Time Cone that leads into the Land of Totnes.<br />The truth is enclosed in a sacred gem.<br />A curse also hangs over the Tworf people. There is something inexplicable that links Martin to that distant past. Some missing link between that past and its future: a prophecy and an amulet.<br />Why is the present already changing? What is the danger looming over the Tworf people?<br />Why is the Lord of Darkness looking for him to kill him? What stood, long ago, in place of his house on Mainmatch Road?<br />Meanwhile, Martin doesn&#39;t have much time left to solve three indecipherable puzzles. And he has to do it before he turns his thirteenth birthday.