Books with author Katharine Gibson

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After Archer and Aradia arrive at Sundari for a long-awaited visit, King Herron tells them that uninvited guests from outer space have landed and set up camp in the wilderness. Because of the unusual nature of Sundari and Archer and Aradia’s advanced skills, King Herron sends them to meet the leader of the star fleet to extend an invitation to come to the city. King Herron hopes to convince his uninvited guests to make their home here and protect his kingdom with their starships.While flying Sundari's kantors on the way to the intruder’s camp, Archer and Aradia’s escort lands in Lokwanda to introduce them to some of the animals that live in King Herron’s kingdom. That's when they discover why Sundari’s crystal master gave them a tour of the kingdom in her crystal ball before they met with King Herron. Sundari is an animal refuge that hosts every animal known to mankind, including animals from the distant past and those brought from distant planets. Archer and Aradia’s simple task becomes more dangerous after Aradia finds a charm in the river that identifies the king’s uninvited guests. King Herron has sent them to meet the leader of the star fleet who kidnapped the wife and child of Volka, leader of the Mother Star’s Starship Warriors. Will they be able to save Volka’s family or are they doomed to wander the universe with their kidnappers?

A precious gem is stolen and the desert Kingdom of Saphra desperately needs Archer and Aradia’s help. They set out to find the thief and return the Desert Sun so Saphra’s heir can be crowned. But the thief carried the gem through the portal to the world of Archer's childhood where Saphra’s crystal master can’t follow. Archer and Aradia must travel through Saphra's crystal ball into the parallel world of Archer's childhood and follow the clues that lead them across the desert of ancient Egypt where danger waits at every turn. They battle their way past bandits, roaming lions and hissing cobras to find an unexpected surprise at the end of their journey.

After his parents are lost at sea, 14-year old Archer takes the family trimaran and heads for Australia. Second thoughts make him abandon the trip but before he can head back, he’s thrown through a portal into the parallel world of the immortals. Archer arrives at the bottom of the sea with a bad case of amnesia and a mermaid at his side. The Crystal Trident, the first book of the Archer Adventures, plunges its reader into the ocean depths and a kingdom filled with danger at every turn. With no memory of his past, Archer begins a quest for a crystal trident on a journey that challenges his new-found skills. While he helps those who saved his life, he struggles to adapt to this alien world

While visiting the planet Water, Archer and Aradia learn that Chion, the tyrant king of Palori, has kidnapped Pazia, Balycon’s teacher, and Pacion has disappeared. But when King Ichos directs Marcoli to tour Palori with Water’s crystal ball to determine why Chion committed the crime, they find a dragon horde lair outside the city. Because of the dragons, it’s too dangerous to harvest the gardens beyond the city gates. Chion needs Pazia’s skills to provide food to keep him and his loyal subjects alive.Before King Ichos can act, Chion flees the city and takes refuge in a distant haven. King Ichos sends Archer and Aradia to meet with Chion and tell him they can save the kingdom. Archer and Aradia travel through Water’s crystal ball to Chion’s haven but things don’t go as planned. Chion doesn’t believe they didn’t come to rescue Pazia and angrily refuses their help. Palori’s tyrant king plans to feed Archer and Aradia to the dragons until Chion’s mother intervenes. She remembers Archer and how he saved them from the storm that destroyed their home. She reminds Chion how Archer brought them to the frozen sea in the long ago past and saved his life. Chion relents and orders an escort to take Archer to the city through a sea filled with dragons. Chion tells Archer if he arrives in the city, he can attempt the impossible but Pazia and Aradia will remain with him. While Chion watches events taking place in the city in his crystal ball, a dragon scout locates his haven. Can Aradia and Pazia save Chion and those who followed him? And can Archer defeat the horde threatening the city without Aradia’s help?

Fire Sled takes its readers to the high Himalayas where Archer and Aradia must recapture a stolen spaceship and bring it home. Because Archer’s skills will let him and Aradia travel to the parallel world of Archer's childhood in the high Himalayas, they've been called to perform a dangerous task...find and return Fire Sled. The space ship is vital to the kingdom for it contains technical knowledge that Partha can’t afford to lose. After Archer and Aradia arrive at a Himalayan Inn in the mountain village, they encounter another challenge. Can they solve a puzzling riddle so the Yeti will help them find their way to a stolen space ship that's hidden in a cave at the center of the mountain? And can Archer fly the space ship home if they do find it?

Silk Ghosts is the story about the Moria’s nests, source of Skye’s shining metallic thread. Someone is stealing them and the thieves must be stopped. Archer and Aradia arrive in Manyika and told to travel through a nearby jungle to find and return the precious thread. Before they find a village, they're kidnapped and escorted to a city of impossible illusions. After a bumpy and dangerous canoe ride through churning white water, Archer and Aradia are introduced to the master of the illusions and his wife which are people from Archer’s youth. Not only is the reunion a happy surprise, Archer discovers the missing thread isn’t the reason for the journey … he's come to find a precious gift from his father and grandfather.

Destroyed by an earthquake and tidal wave centuries ago, the Kingdom of Ekonia fell to the sea floor. Before the survivors could be rescued, they were lost beyond the power of Marcoli's crystal ball to find them. How did the sea swallow them up those many years ago? The Lost Kingdom introduces Aradia, Archer’s guardian and mentor, who travels with him through the alien world of the immortals. Archer rapidly discovers he needs Aradia’s skills to survive the dangers they find at the bottom of the sea. Can Archer and Aradia find the ancient clues that tell them what happened to the survivors and the purple gemstone trident King Ichos sent to help them?

An empty white stone city, called Balycon, on the sea floor calls Archer to explore. He wants to live in the beautiful city but permission is denied because a crystal ball releases a deadly aura that traps its victims in a happy place and makes them oblivious to the dangers around them. After Archer is told he can live in the city if he makes it safe, he immediately plans to find a way. How difficult can it be to move a crystal ball away from the city? Certain he can eliminate a danger that’s existed for centuries, Archer rapidly discovers he needs all the help he can get to survive the obstacles that lie ahead.