Derek Elkins: 25 books

The door between our world and shadow has been opened.When he is saved at the last moment from a monstrous attack, Malcolm, a homeless teenager, follows his savior into a foreign, new world of soldiers and monsters, of masters and mad men, where good and evil clash over the fate of the world.“An...

Robert is a husband and father of two who just wants peace in his life. To this end, he's adopted the mantra, "If that's what makes you happy..."But is striving for the happiness of his wife and children really making Robert's life easier or does it bring a whole new set of problems to his existence?

Three waves decimated the earth. In the First Wave: Snow Day, they came with the snow to destroy as many of us as possible. During the Second Wave: A Trip to the Zoo, they took over our government, our armies and our own bodies. And finally, in the Final Wave: A Hike in the Mountains, one of the last...

After years of deception have finally caught up with Ray, he takes his family to the woods to end it all. But someone or something has other plans.Ray is a stock trader who's been skimming a little off the top for years. After being caught and fired, Ray grabs his wife and kids and heads off...

What happens when a Christian and an Atheist wash up on a deserted island? Can they stomach each other enough to learn to survive together? Or will their differences doom them both? When their plane crashes in the middle of an endless ocean, only two men survive, washing up on the closest land...

There's an old saying that a PhD in Philosophy is really only good for two things: teaching and digging ditches. Eddie, a guy with a PhD in Philosophy finds out just how apt that old saying can be, finding that his mind consistently betrays him as he attempts the most menial of labors.Intelligence can be a good thing if its used in the right place at the right time.

The siblings have their lives turned inside out when an overweight fairy appears and shoots them to a different world: a world of underwear trees, rivers of lard, and into the pages of The Trouble with Bricks. Once there, they are befriended by a leprechaun hunter named Frank, a sasquatch named Melvin,...

The Tallest Tale is a parody of tall tales and legends, such as the tales of Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan or Ross Perot. An old man, desperate for whiskey, hobbles into a bar and reveals the tallest tale ever heard about the evils of Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan, a woman who thought she was a pirate,...

An autistic boy is taken in the middle of the night by something made from blackness that drags him into the attic and through a portal to a different world. His father is not two steps behind, struggling through an alien landscape where every thought, every whim can be turned into reality. As he...

Love is a many splendored thing. It's big and splendored and covered with warts and all kinds of stuff, like emotions and big fluffy hair, like the kind you saw in the Eighties or whatever. For a single price, you get not one, not two but four stories about this crazy little thing called Love. You...

Long Description: Harmonica Carlisle was a rich, beautiful freshman starting her journey at Sacagawea State University. Coming off a bad relationship, she wanted nothing more than to concentrate on her classes and prepare herself for what lay in her future...until she meant him. Florentine Montgomery...