My Young Adult Fantasy

An Unlikely Warrior is a contemporary, 63,800-word, young adult fantasy. It’s the first book in a trilogy that explores how each person’s reality impacts and is impacted by the expectations of others, and how good can overcome evil if we fully embrace what’s best in ourselves.

Seventeen year-old Sarah finds herself looking at her own battered body lying on a hospital bed. She figures she must be dead, but she doesn’t feel dead. Plus, there are beeping machines and a golden light named Jonathon who tell her she’s still alive. According to Jonathon, without intervention, she could die soon. Of course, if she becomes his student he might, that’s might, be able to save her.

He also claims to be a member of a group that’s the last chance to stop psychic terrorists from starting WWIII.  The psychic terrorists are called the Derelicts. Their plan is to enter the essence of a small country’s leader and convince him to preemptively attack his neighbor. From there, it’s just falling dominoes to mass destruction. 

Jonathon’s group needs a warrior, and according to him, Sarah’s perfect. All she has to do is learn how to split her attention and her essence, modify her reality, modify other people’s realities, blend with other essences, and use their energy. Easy peasy, right? Her first reality modification is learning how to create a Dairy Queen Blizzard out of mid air. You gotta love reality manipulation.

During training, she manages to enlist two allies, a mustang stallion and a red-heeler dog. Admittedly, they’re awesome once they blend together, but how sad is it that the fate of the world is in the hands of a horse, a dog, and a seventeen-year-old, introvertive Goth?