The Secret Of The Alchemist

In this richly-textured tale, teenagers Jake and Helen meet at a Dante literary festival in Florence, Italy, and are drawn into the murky underworld intrigues of Helen's dodgy art-dealer father Gerald De Havilland, when his ill-considered attempt to double-cross his occultist client Aurelian Pounce miscarries.

Thwarted by the intervention of Inferno author Dante Alighieri himself, Pounce hounds the children across Europe, as they race against time to save Helen's father and discover the age-old secret of the Alchemist.

This classic tale of the struggle between nature and artifice, good and evil, and hate and love, places high value on the redemptive powers of friendship.

Part One in 'The Fate Of The Stone' Trilogy.