The Escapades of Gagzy and Gogzy

This is a fantasy/adventure story aimed at children. The main characters are Gagzy and Gogzy, sisters with an extraordinary sensory insight. They see into other dimensions.

The setting is the Isle of Bute in Scotland, and it includes visits to an underworld known as the Kingdom of the Fae.

In the opening chapter, the girls are spending Easter on the island, when they encounter Sabmar, a powerful sorcerer who is engaged in a clash with Ainodelac, an Elven champion to the King and Queen of Suidhe.This encounter will impact the development of the story.

The second chapter sees the girls’ mother being summoned to their school to discuss her daughters’ bad behaviour, in scaring other pupils with stories of goblins, dragons, ogres, etc.

The outcome is that mum decides to give them a summer break on the island, to try to absolve their minds and change their ideas about other-worldly beings.

But the opposite happens, and they become drawn into the island’s folklore and its connections with faeries, elves, and other unearthly beings. On the ferry trip to great gran’s island cottage, Gagzy overhears a conversation between four men in which they plan to explode bombs on the island. Their purpose, under orders from Sabmar, is to weaken and finally break the Highland boundary fault line, which lies below the surface of Bute, and split the island in two. If the island is split, so too will be the underworld below, releasing dark, forces onto both the island, and the Kingdom of the Fae.

Gagzy and Gogzy, together with the Queen’s twin children, Alaun and Nuala, and a faery named Luana, fill a key role in foiling Sabmar’s plot.Also woven into the story are instances of time travel. Sabmar does this twice to Gagzy and Gogzy. The first time he transports them back 100 years, to 1924, and the second time, 1000 years to the time of the Viking invasions. On both occasions they must find their own way back to 2024.