Donita K. Paul

Donita K. Paul writes Christian fantasy for younger readers, building adventurous worlds around friendship, moral choice, unusual creatures, and responsibility. A former teacher, she became widely known through the DragonKeeper Chronicles before creating the Realm Walkers sequence for Zondervan’s Zonderkidz imprint. One Realm Beyond opens that trilogy in 2014, introducing Cantor D’Ahma, a young traveler able to cross between worlds, and Bridger, the dragon expected to become his constant companion. Two Renegade Realms follows as the second volume later the same year, reuniting Cantor, Bixby, and Dukmee as they seek the realm walker Chomountain and confront threats to their worlds. Paul’s series combines portal fantasy, guild corruption, dragons, and an explicitly Christian moral framework, while keeping the adventure directed toward middle-grade and teen readers. The order matters because the second book develops relationships and conflicts established in the first. Her larger career also includes romance, picture-book collaboration, and teaching-oriented work for aspiring writers.