Book 1: Science Project
When a family makes a life-changing decision, they can become closer or drift apart!
Let’s peek inside the lives of a family of four that decides to leave the comfort of their home, families, and Mother Earth to journey to an uninhabited planet many light-years away!
The family makes this journey; however, this series is mainly about the adventures and misadventures of their two preteen children.
When Ruby and Nolan Weller make their weekly climb up the hill by their home to check on the Solar Panels, they are shocked to find two Solar Panels mangled and broken beyond repair.
Nolan discovers a large, brightly colored rock nearly covered in mud. They decided it would be a great secret science project.
Two weeks later, when it has grown, they realize it can’t be a rock! What kind of rock grows? Ruby thinks it is an egg, but what’s inside is BIG! And yikes, it’s hatching!
Nolan hopes it’s a pony! Ruby thinks it is a bird, but is concerned by the size!
What could go wrong? It can’t hurt them. It will be a baby! What it is will surprise you almost as much as their parents!
This is book one of a series of 7 young adult adventures.
Book 2: Dragon Flight
Yikes! The science project hatches, and the baby Dragon bonds with Ruby and Nolan! Their parents are unaware of their little science project! The kids named him Donzereli after their strong, wonderful Uncle Dawnzereli, who was back on earth and whom they thought of as an aunt.
They decide it is time to “fess up” and tell their parents! It’s an understatement to say Ty and Robin were disappointed that a “baby dragon” was kept secret from them for weeks!
Meeting the baby dragon and his parents was a shock! Once the parents and the other settlers accepted that Dragons were living amongst them, they settled into an uneasy peace. After Donzereli became the highlight of the Festival of Lights, giving the kids a ride on his back, misgivings settled down a bit!
This book is called “Dragon Flight” for a reason! Donzereli and his friends offered to fly Ruby, Nolan, Bonnie, and Shamus up to his home in the north mountains. They tell their parents they are going on a picnic. Dr. Rodney Allen bribes a ride with them, or he will tell their parents!
If that doesn’t sound exciting enough, does being netted and kidnapped by creatures resembling Yetis and flying cars sound better?
Wait a minute! This planet was supposed to be uninhabited? Wasn’t it?
Book 3: The Keep
This uninhabited planet is getting crowded!
Donzereli’s friendship with Ruby and Nolan cements the relationship between the more technically advanced dragons and the human inhabitants.
Since the Dragon planned an extended stay, our intrepid adventurers decided to explore the Dragon’s Keep. Donzereli thrills them with a tour and a shopping trip to the Dragon Mall! They have unlimited credit cards and plan to shop till they drop! As much fun as this is, they know it can’t last. Their parents are coming to take them home for punishment!
Donzereli to the rescue! He “borrows” a flying car and arranges a deep-sea fishing trip for his friends. This time, Dr “Rod” Allen is invited!
Aye, ye mateys! What could be safer than fishing and pretending to be pirates on a huge ship piloted by Dragons? Would it be, being netted like the huge fish Nolan just caught? Or finding themselves dumped on the deck of a flying car, with strange looking creatures holding them prisoner?
Book 4: The Others
How could something so good go so wrong and so right? Ty and Robin intended to secure a college education guarantee for Ruby and Nolan and give them the adventure of a lifetime. When life gives you lemons, you can whine or make lemonade!
When they discovered that the “Yeti” kidnappers were humans in white fur suits, everyone relaxed a little. The “Others” flew the captives to the southern continent, and again, they were given rooms and clothes and treated like guests.
Ruby discovered “the Amusement Park,” and the kids were invited to dinner after an exhausting day of swimming, playing in the game room, and sliding down a 50-foot water slide, with Donzereli flying them to the top for hours.
Angel made sure Donzereli and his friends ate well after hours of sliding and winning prizes! This kidnapping isn’t so bad, after all!
The parents were prepared to negotiate the release of their children, peaceably by force, if necessary! The youngsters were having so much fun that they hoped it would take days to rescue them!
Darn, the Others were anxious to make friends, so they welcomed the parents for a visit and allowed them to take their kids home.
Book 5: Wormhole
Traveling to their new world takes days instead of the years before the newly discovered Wormhole!
The meeting will have fireworks, and not the fun kind. Introducing the Dragons and the Others to Mr. Hendricks from the Consortium will test their patience.
While the adults are busy, the youngsters are free to get into trouble. Ruby, Nolan, Bonnie, Shamus, Donzereli, and Dr. Allen try but can’t seem to stay out of trouble! Remember what they were up to in Book 1? Ruby & Nolan help hatch a dragon! In later books, the four children and Dr. Rodney Allen fly on dragons to the northern mountains, go deep-sea fishing, & are kidnapped by the “others.”
After months of uncertainty about Hendricks’s demand for repayment to the Consortium of the expense of colonizing this “uninhabited planet,” the Weller family needs a vacation!
They plan a restful week of camping at the beach! What could go wrong?
Could it be Ruby and Nolan saving a drowning young girl and discovering she lives IN the sea? Nolan excitedly accepts her “gift” so he can breathe underwater, but Ruby, not so much!
Book 6: Merpeople
Three Consortium representatives arrive to assess the settlement’s progress.
The leaders introduce the Dragons and the Others, emphasizing that negotiating a trade relationship is a more valuable investment than trying to take resources by force!
An alliance is formed, consisting of all the inhabitants. The Dragons reveal that they can temporarily collapse the Wormhole to create time for negotiations with Earth, if needed.
permanently!
Will the Consortium, under Mr. Hendricks’s supervision, be successful, or will the dragons close the wormhole permanently? Will the colonists stay or have to return to Mother Earth?
Ty and Robin decide to take a family vacation at a lovely beach with a large tide pool, where Ruby and Nolan can swim safely. The parents fall asleep, and Ruby and Nolan go exploring. They help a young girl injured in the surf, and she invites them to visit her home in the sea, where breathing underwater will be no problem.
She gives them an awesome “gift,” which she assures them will only last while they are visiting. They follow her to her beautiful under-the-sea home and find that they might never go home again!
Does that sound like fun? Are you wondering if the “gift” is permanent? And can they ever go home?
Book 7: Decisions
Do you remember the last adventure? Ruby and Nolan became Merpeople! Nolan is thrilled that he can’t drown, but Ruby, not so much.
In the last book, our adventurers settled down to accept their punishment for deciding to “visit” Bri’s home under the sea.
This time, we are focusing more on the adult problems, but we won’t forget the teens!
Negotiations are heating up between the Consortium, via the usual combatant Hendricks, and New Earth residents. Hopefully, before the boiling point is reached, all parties will reach a trade agreement before the Dragons permanently close the wormhole!
Just what will happen is up in the air. Pun intended!
The youngsters ignore the adult problems. Donzereli asks permission to explore the continent across the ocean as a summer project. He had the support of Councilor Klethand, who was enthusiastic one day and the next said, “Absolutely not! It’s too dangerous!”
Donzereli is not deterred! He secretly plans the trip, and the youngsters climb aboard the “borrowed” flying cars and away they go, right under the noses of the distracted adults! Donzereli’s perfect plan goes off without a hitch! They arrive on the continent and set up camp!
Hang on, this could be a bumpy ride!
Book 8: Iris
The Donzereli-Weller Exploration Ltd. is off to a fast start! Their camp is established, and Ruby and Donzereli are in charge of the two groups. Each group has a dragon and a merperson with them. They know it is only a matter of time before the adults try to bring them home!
Donzereli becomes bored and decides to explore alone. He records the lush forests and many of the animals on the prairies. Stopping for lunch, he falls asleep but is woken by Irus of the Panther Clan, with her arrow pointed at his chest, demanding, “Who are you? And what are you doing on our land?”
He convinces her that his friends are only exploring and mean no harm, and invites her to dinner with her group. He is astonished to see her riding her Bison, Balfour, in a saddle.
The Panthers love the S’mores, and dinner is a success!
The group discovers that Fairies inhabit an inactive volcano on the island next to them!
A big dinner is planned on the island and is gate-crashed by the parents and the representatives from Earth.
It is a Bang-up success until the extinct Volcano awakens with an unexpected fury! The campers stare in horror when they realize Ty, Robin, and Donzereli, who are trying to save the Fairies, are missing!
Help! Someone needs to rescue them!
Book 9: Volcano
The parents get an invitation to the new Donzereli/Weller Space Exploration Ltd. facility on a newly discovered Island, but shouldn’t there be spaceships?
The discovery of Angel’s spaceship and amazing fuel sparks renewed excitement for space travel.
The looming threat of the planet being drawn into Old Earth’s aggressive atmosphere could disrupt progress toward space flight.