Laila Rifaat

Aliya is looking forward to the Infinite City’s time-travelling flying carpet race. But when her fellow locksmiths vanish on the course and the power source for time travel is left unguarded, she has to delve into her past to save her world from arch-villain Dorian Darke and his shapeshifting shop of darkness. Aliya and the Shop of Second Chances is...

When sinister magic threatens Aliya’s world once more, she is sent away on a school trip for her own safety aboard the time-travelling Silver Express. But what is supposed to be an educational journey through Egyptian history becomes a deadly race to save it from evil time-twister and master of disguise, Dorian Darke.

On Aliya’s birthday, a glittering surprise gift arrives, promising her greatest wish—to know her late parents. She discovers they were time-travellers from a remarkable parallel Egypt. But when she is whisked there on a magic carpet, she discovers why the truth was hidden from her. A ruthless time-dodger, Dorian Darke, will wreak havoc on history, if he can snare Aliya...