The Boy with the Chrono-Key

The past isn't just etched in stone-it's ticking. Twelve-year-old Alula thinks he is entirely ordinary, especially compared to his brilliant archaeologist grandfather who vanished mysteriously during an expedition. But when Alula is tasked with packing up his grandfather's dusty attic in Addis Ababa, a strange metallic artifact wrapped in ancient cloth changes everything. It is the Chrono-Key: a brilliant geometric sphere covered in interlocking rings and ancient Ge'ez scripts.
It doesn't just transport its user through time; it operates on high-stakes Quantum Loop Mechanics. If history is disrupted, a ruthless 60-minute countdown begins. If Alula can't use his innate puzzle-solving skills to stabilize the timeline before the clock hits zero, that era-and his own future-will collapse entirely. Flipped across centuries, Alula's journey takes him to:·        The gleaming, newly raised monoliths of the 4th-century Aksumite Empire.·        The treacherous, subterranean labyrinth of 12th-century Lalibela.·        The majestic, floating puzzle vaults of 17th-century Gondar.
Aided by Mini-Beta, a brilliant but shoelace-eating clockwork mechanical falcon, Alula must outsmart the Syndicate-a ruthless group of high-tech time-thieves out to rewrite global history for profit. With the countdown aggressively ticking away on his wrist, Alula realizes he isn't just a lost kid trying to get home. He is a Time Guardian on a rescue mission to save his grandfather and protect the ancient foundations of the world.