Previously released as The Vanishing Sculptor With the help of some unlikely companions-including the nearly 5-foot-tall (1.5 m) parrot Beccaroon and the miraculous Wulder-she sets out to save her father and her world. Tipper, a young emerlindian who's responsible for the upkeep of her family's estate during her sculptor father's absence, discovers that her actions have unbalanced the whole foundation of her world, and she must act quickly to undo the calamitous threat. With the evil apparently banished from the land, a new religious movement arises-but is it a blessing or a curse? Also, waves of tiny but destructive dragons may herald the awakening of an ancient, unstoppable dragon. Kale and Bardon, now husband and wife must stop husband-and-wife wizards devastating the land in a contest for supremacy. Bardon and Kale also form a romantic relationship. Now an apprentice dragonkeeper, Kale and a young man named Bardon must again thwart the evil wizard Risto's plans to use dragon-power for conquest.īefore becoming a knight, Bardon undertakes a quest to free magically imprisoned knights, one of whom may be Kale's long-lost father. Now she must help recover a dragon egg stolen by an evil, terrible wizard. The eventual result was the DragonKeeper Chronicles.īibliography DragonKeeper Chronicles Series Titleįormer slave Kale Allerion unintentionally joins a band of adventurers on her way to train for royal service. Īfter her initial success writing romances, Paul tried fantasy when her mother challenged her to write 'something different, bigger, deeper'. She took the Institute of Children's Literature correspondence course when her children were preschoolers, and she later wrote a romance novel for her thirteen-year-old daughter, but she didn't settle down to writing until she got an infection in her leg that ultimately ended her school-teaching career. She and three or four friends would write during the week and share their stories at a Friday night slumber party. She submitted a romance novel she had written for her thirteen-year-old daughter, and it was published. It wasn't until flesh-eating bacteria in her leg put her in the hospital for 21 days that she seriously turned to writing at her mother's urging. Paul studied elementary education in college as preparation for being a mother she soon became a single mother and worked as an elementary-school teacher. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Paul now lives in eastern Colorado.

She has also written romances and juvenile novels under the name Kathleen Paul. Best known for her fantasy DragonKeeper Chronicles series, she won a finalist medal in the Christy Awards for the first installment of the DragonKeeper Chronicles, DragonSpell. Donita Kathleen Paul (born Novem) is a best-selling contemporary Christian fiction novelist.

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