Lee J H Fomes

The third instalment in the bestselling 'The L-Shaped Village' Series, telling the story of the boy who may or may not turn out to be Santa Claus.

Art Elfee may seem like just any other ordinary 16 year-old boy about to finish secondary school, but he has an amazing secret - he has discovered an opening to a world where the legend of Santa Claus is possibly very real indeed. He also has another secret - one of his best friends is one of the inhabitants of that world - a small feisty Sprite named Maga. As if trying to keep these secrets isn't hard enough, a dark, shadowy figure has followed him back to his own world; but when Art tries to discover who he is, he uncovers a shocking truth about someone very close to his heart, that may just tear his world apart ..."Art And The Abductor" is the second novel in the L-Shaped Village series, the sequel to the bestselling "Art And The Artisans", where Art is unexpectedly catapulted to a strange world and a race of beings he doesn't understand. In this second novel, Art is unwittingly taught the ways of magic, under the watchful eye of someone who may be the key to everything ...

Art Elfee is in his final year of school, and whilst trying to deal with the unexpected attentions of the prettiest girl in his year, he is also hiding a huge secret; one of his best friends is a sprite, who appeared from nowhere four years in Art's past. Art believes their very treasured friendship has remained a secret, but the appearance of a magical Amulet transports him to a strange world, and a snow-covered village, where one of it's inhabitants lets it slip that Art's sprite-friend may not be all he seems...Arthur seems like a very ordinary boy, but over the course of his fantastical journey discovers he may just be at the centre of one of the most misunderstood legends of our time, that also turns out to be far from mythical. And although he has never been anything but amazingly unremarkable, Art Elfee could just be the boy with the coolest destiny of all.