When Derek's dragonling, Zantor, and Zantor's best friend, Pola, disappear into the mists of Krad, they are given up for dead. But Derek knows they are alive, because he can hear their cries for help within his head. But when Derek sneaks into Krad to rescue Zantor and Pola, he finds it's a much more dangerous place than he had ever imagined.
Jackie French Koller (born 1948) is an American author of picture books, chapter books, and novels for children and young adults. She lives and writes in western Massachusetts.
Koller is also an accomplished painter. Her interest in art inspired her to open The Little Black Dog Gallery in Westfield, Massachusetts.
Koller's young-adult novel If I Had One Wish was adapted into a Disney Channel Original Movie under the title You Wish!.