Books with author Brian Clopper

Ocean City, Maryland, 1988. While most thirteen-year-old boys are spending the summer soaking up the sun and chasing cute girls up and down the Boardwalk, Reece Narrows is staying with his aunt in her bayside trailer while his mom wastes away in the hospital. As if the situation isn't bad enough, his antagonistic older cousin just loves making trouble for him. Laney hurls insults his way at every turn as well as refusing to take him along on her expeditions to find the Maiden in the Marsh, a local legend she’s determined to prove exists. But there's more. A newfound paranormal gift thrusts Reece into dire circumstances with a gaggle of eclectic ghosts haunting the coast. Through it all, he must keep his spirits up and find a way to save the decent souls that brand him their reluctant protector. Brian Clopper once again dips into 1980s nerd nostalgia like his previous novel, The Powers That Flee. This time, he puts a fresh spin on the supernatural genre.

The Firebreaks are a family of dragonslayers. After dispatching the unruly lizards, this father/son team brings back the fair maidens to live on their magically protected princess reservation. At least that's what their brochure would have you believe.When Ned wakes up from a coma, he finds key memories relating to his rescue missions and missing-in-action father erased by magic. With the help of three motivated princesses and one who’s rather a hindrance, he sets out to uncover his missing memories and reveal the truth of the Firebreaks’s dealings with the dragons of the Eight Kingdoms. Along the way, Ned picks up a tree sidekick, a wizard versed in the ludicrous art of pun magic, and a healthy respect for both princesses and dragons alike.Can he make the world outside of the reservation safe for the princesses? Will he uncover the true threat to the maidens' well-being? Can he find his father before he must face off against the nefarious black dragon, Rackeesus, who dogs his trail every step of the way?Find out Ned's fate in this rousing tale that blends fantasy with mystery and heaping helpings of wit.

Time and space about to crash in on itself thanks to paradoxes galore? Check.An invasion of Earth by ghastly monsters? Most definitely.A super-baddie named Horde Lord? Absolutely.Four unsuspecting kids suddenly able to become super-powered monsters courtesy of high-tech boxers? You know it.Bullies, betrayals, and bombast? Of course we have the three Bs.The Monsters in Boxers series is a rowdy mash-up of monsters, time travel and magical undergarments that’s filled with action and wit.

What's a little magic without a little mortal perspective? Dylan Thadmussel is the class geek, expert on all things magical and cryptic. Mitch Trick is the class bully, his number one client: Dylan. Both find themselves dumped into the magical dimension of Myriad, and set upon by Grimble, a gremlin guide who declares himself their appointed tagalong and takes them on an adventure that is a dream come true for Dylan, who is starstruck by meeting and defeating trolls, bushwhacking bigfoot and sidestepping snallygasters. Mitch doesn't buy into it. Suspecting their quest is planned, he constantly points out fantastic fabrications a little too convenient to believe. Soon, their adventure takes a turn for the worse and both find themselves in the thick of real peril. Can they act together to stop the true dangers that threaten to unravel all of Myriad?

"... Of the literally hundreds of self published, Kindle freebie, and kindleunlimited books I've read, skimmed and commented on, this is one of the most interesting, entertaining and satisfying finds to date..."Irving and Roon brave the wilds outside of the Questing Academy as they seek to rescue her brother from Revision Ravine. Their adventure finds unlikely alliances forged with Druthers the wish dragon, along with Knarl and his sharp-edged wife, Lady Edith. As the pair delve deeper into Revision Ravine, they learn more than they bargain for about Dean Harmstrike's sinister reach and his foul plans.Can Roon and Irving escape the Machine and the dark hold the ravine has on trespassers? Find out in the second book of the Irving Wishbutton saga.

Angus Farseek is snatched away mere seconds before his unfortunate death. Teleported by strange creatures called Quick Slivers to another dimension, Angus discovers he has earned the honor of becoming an Untimely Agent, one who roams across time, safeguarding it from those dead set on unraveling the cosmos. But all is not as it seems with his newfound station, and he is shocked to find he has numerous family ties with time travel, one of which seems to be working for the other side.Alongside a teenage girl his daughter's age and a rogue Quick Sliver, he's flung into the timestream well before his training is complete. Overwhelmed and desperate to get back to his family, he must take action even if it tampers with history itself.What dire conspiracies will he uncover? What damage to the timestream can he possibly inflict? And what exactly does the essence of H. G. Wells have to do with the caretaking of all things chronological? UNTIMELY AGENT is the first of two books that will dazzle readers with time travel trickery and mystique.

"A fulfilling conclusion to a lovingly plotted, deeply intricate story." Dean Harmstrike is fed up with supervising the characters that attend the Questing Academy and will stop at nothing to invade the real world. Irving and his eclectic classmates, along with a very special stranger, risk it all to stop him. Harmstrike expels Irving to the mysterious Domain of Sagas where Irving must inhabit the title role in three quests. He can’t lose himself in the heroic characters he’s hijacked as he barrels through the epic adventures, beating back the madness and searching for his true cast amid the narrative archetypes so they can all escape. Can Irving escape his storybook prisons and defeat the dean once and for all? The Domain of Sagas is the fourth and final volume in the Irving Wishbutton fantasy series.

Gideon Thump knows magic abounds in his town, that a tight crew of his classmates are secretly champions of the light and face down evil on a daily basis. All he needs is proof. He foolishly trails their leader and soon finds himself no longer a simple observer. Dropped inadvertently into the role of the major hero, with heavy sword and all, Gideon must win over a supporting cast that blames him for the loss of one of their own, while facing down magical baddies that are thoroughly modern and a little absurd. Making matters worse, his annoying cousin moves in with him and runs afoul of magic herself. With a sinister foe dead set on harvesting Gideon's fledgling magic, he must rally the troops and employ his addled wits to carve out a destiny that doesn't result in him shuffling off this mortal coil.

Maggie and Heath won’t be finishing high school. Ever. The arrival of the Makers made sure of that. Their ships hovered above major cities, dispersing a bioweapon that transformed a subset of humanity into the Altered, mutated killing machines programmed to scrub clean all that remains of mankind. But the aliens miscalculated. A certain population didn’t fully transform. These hybrids, Offshoots, must overcome the fear they inspire and use their special abilities to overthrow the aliens. Maggie and Heath are blessed and cursed to be the first of the Offshoots. They, along with others of their kind, must unite the scattered humans to fight back with them against the Makers and their engineered army, the Altered. A fast-paced alien invasion epic begins here!

This omnibus collects all three books in the Graham the Gargoyle series, a story which soars to new heights of magical imagination! Graham’s GriefOn top of worrying about his First Flight test at the end of the week, our young gargoyle hero must contend with a bully who is out to humiliate him at every turn, as well as having to deal with the sadness of his grandfather’s imminent crossing over to Earth. Find out why so much of Graham’s success hinges on him overcoming his fear of flying. Flenn’s Folly Graham, Ot, and Flenn must uncover what sinister magic is turning the woodland animals into statues and its connection to the Flying Mummy. Our friends are also determined to find out why the trolls in the nearby village are fading away. And all this while Blord is once again terrorizing Graham’s life. Ot’s Ordeal Graham, Ot, Flenn, and Blord attend an elite school for the children of magical ambassadors who must regularly convene in the big city of New Asgard. But an evil lurks on the school grounds, one they can only defeat by working together.