Books with author J. J. Carlson

Sara Ann Dungan has enough to deal with at home and her kid sister without getting shot to another planet with all their problems. Besides the fact that he’s green, her guide Camidon is plain rude. She thought he was leading her on the fast track to return to Earth. But dodging arrows and giant snakes seem all a part of his plan not to help her get home, but to rip control of their country from the upstart Lord Brock. The rebels are reasonably suspicious of pale Sara, and Camidon is torn between keeping his own promises or doing what logic would more reasonably dictate. The mythical Awkites seem the only answer – one hope for two paths. But can myths exist? Time is running out in her own world. Will any of this be enough for Sara to find her way home in time to save her sister?

Aldric is content working in his family’s apple orchard—or as content as a fourteen-year-old-boy can be doing chores and dreaming up new magic—when he digs up an antique ring and releases a rude spell-bound unicorn. She claims she belongs to the king, but after her long imprisonment, she can’t tell Aldric which king that might be. Aldric promises to take her to the capital, and suddenly a simple three-day trip becomes an adventure.War is building on his country’s borders, and even with the help of Aldric’s new friend Iggy, and Gwen, the general’s daughter, it’s going to take all the military sword training, courage, and magic Aldric has to find the unicorn’s rightful king. Promises will be made, the bonds of family and friendship will be tested, with a war which changes everything. Can an apple farmer and one rude war unicorn save the country from the approaching enemy?