Throughout her long apprenticeship, Jordan wrote twenty-seven picture books for children as well as twelve novels. Three of her picture books were published and none of the novels. With novel number thirteen, however, she decided she would make or break her career: if the book was rejected, she would give up writing. Fortunately for readers, she hit it big with number thirteen, Rocco. A fantasy for young adults, the book explores themes ranging from the nature of time to parallel worlds, through the journey of a contemporary teenager in search of himself. Rocco, the teenager in question, has recurring dreams of a wolf leaping toward him. Each time, he awakes from these dreams scared and smelling of wood smoke. Finally, he awakes to find that he has slipped in time; he is in a valley called Anshur where the people dress in animal skins and live in caves, and Rocco quickly adapts to their lifestyle. At first, Rocco believes he is living in the past, but slowly, as the clues accumulate, he realizes he is actually in a post-holocaust future. Suddenly returned to his own time, Rocco feels he must stop the chain of events that will lead to his dreams of Anshur.
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