Charlie Hipkiss is lazy and has an answer foreverything, whilst Saima Noor is sensible and hardworking. Both pupils, in Year5 at Wicton Village Primary, find that truth and lies are never far apart whena school trip turns their world upside down.Wicton Village museum is under threat and a furious MissIsadora Dean, the mysterious curator, invokes the power of an ancient force.Unaware, the two classmates are thrust back in time to cruel, Roman Britain. Trickery,robbery and murder confront them and threaten their very lives. Survival iseverything if they are ever to return home.

Charlie Hipkiss is lazy and has an answer foreverything, whilst Saima Noor is sensible and hardworking. Both pupils, in Year5 at Wicton Village Primary, find that truth and lies are never far apart whena school trip turns their world upside down.Wicton Village museum is under threat and a furious MissIsadora Dean, the mysterious curator, invokes the power of an ancient force.Unaware, the two classmates are thrust back in time to cruel, Roman Britain. Trickery,robbery and murder confront them and threaten their very lives. Survival iseverything if they are ever to return home.