Grandpa has been hiding a secret down in the potato cellar - a relic from a lost age of Ireland that transports two children into the land of the Others, where strange, wondrous, and gripping adventures take place.

SYNOPSIS:

The story of the Great Hunger of the 1840's in Ireland is a sad and tragic tale. But few know of the strange events that took place the year that it all began. It was 1845, and Ellie McGunnegal, mother of six very odd children, went down into Grandpa's potato cellar and never came back. Something else came in her place - a goblin from another realm, and that is when Ireland's troubles were multiplied, for the goblin carried a dark magic with it.

It wasn't until nearly a year later that thirteen-year-old Colleen McGunnegal and her cousin Frederick were visiting Grandpa and discovered that he had been hiding a secret - a relic from a lost age of Ireland that created a magical portal. They stumbled through, and were transported into a strange land filled with the creatures of Irish legend - and so their lives were changed forever, for they discovered that the Others were real.

While there, they find that Colleen's mother, Ellie, has been taken captive by the dark creatures of the night, and they must rescue her from the Goblin King and his Court Witch. Along they way they encounter leprechauns, gnomes, trolls, goblins, old hags, and a host of other monstrous and wonderful beings that dance, sing, crunch, and stomp through the pages of these other-worldly adventures.

From the shores of Ireland, into the land of the Little People. From the secret world of the Dwarves, to the magical Orkney Islands of Scotland where the Trow lurk. Into the mines and dragon dens of Wales, across the strange and mysterious seas of Bermuda, and into the compelling and hidden paths of Deep Faerie. Up the beanstalk to the land of the Giants, down into the hidden city of Underlook where Coblyns dwell, and much, much more awaits the curious reader.

The McGunnegal Chronicles transports the adventurous and imaginative explorer through a host of familiar and not-so-familiar legends and fairy tales that inspire, thrill, and come to life in these family-friendly and gripping stories that echo the old tales once told around peat fires and under starlight.