Books with author D. L. Wilson

A strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room. Less than twenty-four hours later the old man is dead. The motel has burned and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millenia.

Fans of both Percy Jackson and Indiana Jones will be captivated by the lost civilizations, ancient secrets, and buried treasure found in the second book of the Ashtown Burials series, action-packed adventure by N. D. Wilson, the author of Leepike Ridge and the 100 Cupboards trilogy.It's been almost a year since Cyrus and Antigone Smith earned their places as Journeymen at Ashtown, home of an ancient order of explorers that has long guarded the world's secrets and treasures. While their studies go well, Cy and Tigs are not well liked since losing the Dragon's Tooth to the nefarious Dr. Phoenix. The Tooth is the only object in the world capable of killing the long-lived transmortals, and Phoenix has been tracking them down one-by-one, and murdering them.The surviving transmortals, led by legendary warrior Gilgamesh of Uruk, descend on Ashtown in force, demanding justice. Cy and Tigs find themselves on the run in a desperate search to locate Phoenix and regain the Tooth. In the process, they uncover an evil even more dangerous than Phoenix, one that has been waiting for centuries to emerge.

Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room–with a man pacing back and forth! Henry soon understands that these are not just cupboards, but portals to other worlds.100 Cupboards is the first book of a new fantasy adventure, written in the best world-hopping tradition and reinvented in N. D. Wilson’s inimitable style.

Fans of both Percy Jackson and Indiana Jones will be captivated by the lost civilizations, ancient secrets, and buried treasure found in the third book of the Ashtown Burials series, an action-packed adventure by the author of 100 Cupboards. Cyrus and Antigone Smith have thwarted Dr. Phoenix’s plans—for the moment. They’ve uncovered a new threat from the transmortals and managed to escape with their lives. Their next adventure will take them deep into the caves below Ashtown, where they will look for help from those imprisoned in one of Ashtown’s oldest tombs. “An extraordinary new series.”—SLJ, StarredFrom the Hardcover edition.

Gallen and Ceilidh lead normal everyday lives... well as normal and everyday as possible for two orphans living in a remote Scottish village. All that is about to change when they discover they have a past nestled in the magical realm of Wyv. As they find themselves kidnapped by a mysterious, albeit a bit confused, stranger and transported to the Royal Court of Wyveryn to fulfil their destiny.After meeting ‘The Three’, Slainthe, Clavical and Thorne, three brothers who are legendary Knights, and enrolling in Orleon Spires, the training establishment of the realm, soon Gallen and Ceilidh discover that all is not what it seems in Wyv. Join Gallen, Ceilidh and their friend Toby, as they meet knights, pirates, golems and dragons and explore the magical land of Wyv. This is where the adventure begins...

A year has passed since Percy Fitz ran way from his family cabin in Pan Woods and found his way to the underground kingdom of Aurora. All along he knew he would have to return to his parents sometime and some way, but how that was going to happen he couldn't figure out. As he sat alone on Pyrite Point and gazed out over Aurora Lake he was puzzling, again, on what to do. What he didn't know was at that very moment Glaucus, necromancer of the Satyr Clan, and his archenemy, was putting into action a plan designed to destroy both Percy and his family!

[Children's Fiction (Ages 8-12)][Read by MacLeod Andrews]From the bestselling author of 100 Cupboards comes the second book in a one-of-a-kind middle-grade time travel series that is perfect for fans of Soman Chainani's School for Good and Evil books.Sam Miracle never thought that his future could lie in the past. But after leaping through centuries at the side of a mystical time walker, Sam and his best friend, Glory, know that the next morning's sun could belong to yesterday as easily as tomorrow.But no day is safe. Since the Vulture escaped, Sam and Glory's greatest nemesis has left no time nor place unmarked by his path of destruction. At least Sam and Glory have Peter, the youngest version of their mentor, Father Tiempo, to help repair the sands of time ... until they don't.Determined to save their friend from the Vulture's clutches, Sam and Glory put their trust in Ghost, a creature from before time itself. But now, the sidekick must fill the legend's shoes, the hero must play backup, and the powers they have yet to discover might just hold the key to protecting every last second for eons to come.

Eleven-year-old Thomas Hammond is in for the ride of his life when he's swept downstream and underground aboard a crumbling raft of Styrofoam. Washing up on a dark subterranean "beach," his only companions are an impulsive dog named Argus and a corpse, from which he takes a flashlight and an all-too-limited supply of batteries. What Tom finds under Leepike Ridge—a castaway, four graves, a tomb, and buried treasure—will answer questions he hadn't known to ask and change his life forever. Now, if he can only find his way home again. . . .An original mix of Robinson Crusoe, King Solomon's Mines, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Odyssey, N. D. Wilson's first book for young readers is a remarkable adventure, a journey though the dark of the grave and back out into the light.From the Hardcover edition.