The Hidden Kingdom has been saved from disaster, so Kumari can finally concentrate on becoming a proper goddess. But an urgent message arrives from the World Beyond: her foster mother Ma is seriously ill, and Kumari must go to the rescue. As her plane descends towards New York, Kumari wonders if her friends will still be there for her, and if Chico will have found some other girl. She soon discovers just how much has changed. Her school is now the focus of a reality TV show, and Kumari finds herself in the spotlight, and in terrible danger. Her old enemies are watching, and they are more powerful and ruthless than ever. Kumari faces an impossible dilemma. With a chance to avenge her boleved Mamma at last, must she renounce forever her friends, her freedom and her happiness?