Twelve year old Isabel Pritchard lives with her sixteen year old brother, William, and their mother. Behind Isabel's home is a small park and when Isabel finds herself late home from school one afternoon she decides to take a short cut through the park, knowing that her mother has forbidden her to enter the park. It's a decision that changes her life as she uncovers family secrets that go back five hundred years, all the way to the birth of Queen Elizabeth the First.

A year after her discovery of magic trees in their local park, Isabel and best friend Jess are on a school excursion to Kew Gardens.  They come across Kew Palace and, knowing nothing about its history, decide to sneak into the library. A painting on the wall in the library catches Isabel’s eye and she realises the man in the painting is wearing the amulet.  When they head for home to tell Isabel’s brother, William, Jess disappears!  Isabel must find Jess but who is the man wearing the amulet?   The Amulet’s Curse is the second adventure for the Pritchard children in the...