LOSING EVERYTHING IS THE PATH TO GAIN WHAT TRULY MATTERSRudolph chases a treasure: His simple plan - save enough money to buy an engagement ring for the woman he loves. His hopes are sunk when his parents ask him to sail to Halifax and retrieve his ailing grandfather, a task that will all but wipe out his savings.Desperate to preserve his hard-earned money, Rudolph takes a series of dangerous gambles. His folly only sets him further from hi...

RIP VAN WINKLE IS A SIMPLE MAN. All he ever wanted was to pay his bills and hand down a family legacy to the son who shares his name.His grandfather built the Cortland Furniture Factory, the biggest employer in Apple Gap. It was his father's inheritance, and was to be his as well. But what seemed to be a life-long rash of bad luck places Rip Van Winkle, the third, as an employee working on the loading dock, not as the owner sitting in the boss's chair.At the age of thirty-f...

My son sees lights that I can't see.When his son begins to see lights on Elk Horn Mountain, Gerald can't help but remember his youth - camping with his father in the national parks of Shunderland. The starry nights and the smell of extinguished campfires are as fresh now as they were then.Then there were the lights. He never could see them. All these years later, troubled by common mid-life woes, and still blinded by the elusive lights, Gerald is compelled ...

One amazing promise. Two wayward sons, each growing desperate to take hold of it. When they do, forgiveness and justice come to a clash.While his older brother is hard at work in the fields, Barhat lounges and dreams of adventure. He longs for the city life, blind corners to rush around and finding more blind corners once he rounds them. But his dreams are only realized on the flat parchment of his scrolls until his father grants him an early inheritance.Eq...

I pray you find the treasures that all men seek; the gospel, the girl, the gold.It starts with a family mystery.35 years ago William Casperstone gave his son a stuffed lion, a colorful creature with a strong heart to encouraging him through a difficult time. Only after he passes it on to his own daughter does he discover that the lion's strong heart is in fact a single gold nugget.Pressed by his now grown son and his grand-daughter, Cubby, William C...

Hylies Wedge is a dying place, abandoned buildings line Main Street, a graveyard consumes the land and a dwindling population holds little hope for the future. But life as usual changes when young resident, Gina Sullivan, finds herself in harm’s way- her shoe stuck on a railroad tie. A mysterious wanderer plucks her to safety and in a twist-of-fate moment Gina follows him out of town, leaving all of Hylies Wedge to search for her.Inundated with news cameras and crowds of curious by...

The final installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series!Every question is answered. Every truth is revealed. The final battle has begun.It was all leading up to this moment. Nine books—nine battles for nine territories—have brought Bobby Pendragon to where he is now. At last, Bobby and the rest of the travelers must join forces in an epic war against Saint Dane for not only one last terri...

CLORALThe second installment in an epic series of adventuresFourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And he's taking Bobby along for the ride.Fresh from his first adventure on Denduron, Bob...

Breaking the rulesJust when fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler -- to protect the territories of Halla from the evil Saint Dane -- he is faced with an impossible choice. The inhabitants of Eelong are in danger of being wiped out by a mysterious plague. The only way Bobby can stop it is to bring the antidote from another territory. Since moving items between territories is forbidden by the Traveler rules, if Bobby chooses ...

When Bobby Pendragon first arrives on the tropical world of Ibara, he finds paradise. There is beauty all around and the people of Ibara are blissfully happy. It's not long before Bobby discovers, however, that they are also blissfully...oblivious.The leaders of Ibara are keeping a devastating secret from their people, one that gives Saint Dane all the opportunity he needs to launch his final assault on Halla.While Bobby struggles to learn the truth in time to thwart Saint ...

Let the Games Begin....Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. Hosted by a strange pair of game masters, Veego and LaBerge, the games are a mix of sport and combat. They use the people of Quillan as pawns for their amusement as they force them to enter competitions that range from physic...