CHAPTER 1 Sam slid the perfectly browned pieces of banana French toast onto two plates as her dad Mitch leaned over to add a few slices of crispy bacon It’s been exactly fifteen days since we burned any meals Sam boasted Her dad snorted good naturedly I didn’t know we were keeping count Sam munched on her breakfast 1
remembering how she hadn’t wanted to come to Foggy Harbor South Carolina at all But Sam’s mom Deena had been right There were plenty of adventures to be found here And Sam hadn’t been alone thanks to her new friend Tuck his mom Mel the town veterinarian and Mitch who’d turned out to be her real dad 2
Mitch had been Mr Grumps the first day she’d met him but things were different now She was different now A full fledged unicorn protector like her dad she guarded the secret Unicorn Island that sat off the coast of Foggy Harbor Plus they were different now No more surprises Well almost none They had been stunned to learn that Sylvie Sam’s biological mother might still be alive after disappearing through a portal to another world But there was still so much they didn’t know and not much they could do with the information if they had it They couldn’t even start looking for Sylvie without opening the portal and doing that would drain the unicorns of their magic Sending Smeesie home through the portal had already sapped most of the herd’s magic nearly turning 3