The Glamis Curse is a "coming of age" novel in which the lives of Michael and Judy, red squirrel twins struggling to grow up in the gray squirrel world of Manhattan's Central Park, improbably cross paths with those of Lucinda, an orphaned lass, and her magical knight guardian Sir Edgar, who have fled there from the Scottish Highlands.

Michael's and Judy's parents, descendants of Highlands squirrels landed in the wilds of the Park's North Wood, bore the twins in late autumn, past the gathering season, but despite the gray squirrels' predations their father has managed to larder food enough to keep the family into winter... read more