Brian Yansky Books in Order

In 1979, troubled teenager Simon leaves Iowa for Texas after discovering clues to his birth parents. His search for identity becomes a road trip populated by drifters, a fugitive young woman, and an intriguing Elvis impersonator.

Aspiring screenwriter Jack Bell can see ghosts, and lately they insist he investigate their deaths. Between family troubles, feelings for his best friend, and a suspicious detective, he struggles to keep ordinary teenage life from unraveling.

In a magical version of 1920s America, detective Romeo Moon can transform into dogs. A prophecy, murdered relatives, and a kidnapped mother draw him into a fight against powerful enemies while he falls for a crime boss's employee.

Detective Romeo Moon loves Julia, who works for a notorious crime lord. When Satan kidnaps the Fates to change history, Romeo's investigation leads toward her employer, forcing him to weigh saving the world against protecting her.

Brian Yansky draws on writing and teaching experience to help aspiring novelists begin and finish their work. More than a hundred brief lessons address plot, character, setting, dialogue, and language, offering practical approaches to recurring problems in fiction.

Romeo takes his hunted fiancée Julia to a small Western town, hoping for safety and romance. A missing boy, a controlling magician, and Julia's new business dealings instead expose dangerous secrets and widening cracks in their relationship.

An alien leader travels to Earth seeking a way to stop machines bent on destroying biological life. Meanwhile, July Jackson confronts former collaborators whose attempted coup threatens American democracy, connecting a local political crisis with a galactic struggle.

Sheriff July Jackson wakes to impossible August snow in Egypt, Texas, and a town whose vehicles and electronics no longer work. Unable to remember the previous night, he investigates mysterious visitors and what they have done to his community.

No longer sheriff, July Jackson flees aliens and the humans serving them. His earlier defiance makes him an unlikely resistance leader, but fighting beings with seemingly overwhelming powers may demand more than his reputation can deliver.

A stolen library book contains truths about Eden that powerful humans and angels want concealed. The librarian must recover it while opposing forces obstruct his search and his unresolved feelings for a witch complicate life in town.

A magical object lets the librarian revisit his teenage years, when his best friend vanished and his mentor was murdered. Investigating those losses forces him to face old demons whose influence reaches into his present life.

A witch asks Eden's librarian to find her missing feline familiar. What starts as a search for a cat pulls him into another supernatural mystery among the town's eccentric residents, where apparently simple requests rarely stay simple.

Kevin accidentally becomes librarian of an unmapped town after trying on a dead man's ring. His first duty is solving his predecessor's murder, complicated by escaped fictional characters, dangerous library secrets, and his attraction to a suspected witch.

Human enforcer Roman serves a vampire count until a failed assignment forces him to question his loyalties. With rebel assassin Maeve, he confronts secrets about his identity and the possibility of rebellion against the vampires who rule humanity.

Roman's struggle with his vampire masters continues as human resistance grows and secrets about his past reshape his choices. Alongside rebel assassin Maeve, he must weigh his emerging powers against the risks of challenging the ruling vampires.

Eden's librarian confronts a new enemy as his relationship with Olive begins to falter. In a town crowded with witches, demons, and angels, major changes in his own life make the latest supernatural threat harder to face.

A magical fire threatens Eden while a rebellion challenges the Devil's rule in Hell. With his father under attack and a sibling leading the coup, the librarian must protect his town and navigate an especially dangerous family dispute.

Kevin and Olive finally find love, only to hear a prophecy that their relationship could end the world. Meanwhile, an ancient spirit hunts Death's missing knife, forcing the librarian to recover the weapon before it can be used.

Kevin has lost his position as librarian and his relationship with Olive is strained. A new magician presents another dangerous challenge while the threat of Armageddon grows, leaving him to navigate supernatural trouble without his former stability.

A powerful creature abducts Eden's residents to settle an old grievance. Kevin and his supernatural allies must stop it while he grapples with his role as the antichrist, complicated family loyalties, and the approach of Armageddon.

New gods arrive in Eden with demands of their own, adding another complication to the librarian's supernatural responsibilities. At the same time, his unsettled relationship with Olive appears to be moving toward reconciliation in their unpredictable town.

Land pirate Captain Jack takes the spotlight in a short adventure connected to the librarian's post-apocalyptic world. The supporting character known as Jacquline gets a story of her own, bringing pirate exploits and humor beyond her appearances in the novels.

After five years trapped in a haunted forest, the librarian returns to a radically changed world. With a strange sword, a time-traveling Cadillac, and his hellhound, he must rescue Eden's kidnapped residents from a mad scientist.

Armageddon threatens the supernatural community Kevin has sworn to protect. With new gods to defeat and Eden's strange inhabitants depending on him, the librarian faces the culmination of dangers that have followed his unexpected appointment.

Armageddon draws closer despite the librarian's efforts to halt it. His mother's arrival adds a startling complication: she is a goddess, bringing another divine family connection into an already tangled struggle over the approaching end of the world.

Kevin helps a land pirate rob a train while trying to reconnect with Olive and stop a scientist breeding powerful supernatural servants. Meanwhile, America's new king keeps increasing the bounty on the librarian's head, making every move more dangerous.

The librarian faces monsters in a world reshaped by the apocalypse. His supernatural adventures collide with demonic family troubles, mixing the hazards of survival with the awkward complications of relatives whose problems are anything but ordinary.

Two sixty-year-old friends set out across America and unexpectedly wake on a distant space station. Stranded far from Earth, Johnny and Billy must find a missing Great Dane while navigating alien dangers and a threat to the galaxy itself.

Johnny and Billy travel to a concealed planet in search of Johnny’s Great Dane, Hamlet. Their interstellar detour uncovers unexpected dangers, threatening to end the two friends’ efforts to return to Earth before they can make much progress.

Johnny and Billy's attempt to return to Earth continues through a galaxy crowded with smugglers, strange monks, and vampire assassins. The two sixty-year-old friends keep finding new obstacles between their accidental interstellar journey and the home they want to reach.

Former convict and schoolteacher Bart wakes certain he has lost something, but cannot remember what. His search through an increasingly absurd world draws in his dog and ex-girlfriend as he tries to understand what recovering it would mean.

As Eden's magical defenses weaken, the librarian must steal a sacred book from a goddess's Chicago palace. Recruiting haunted-forest creatures and untangling an old conspiracy may be the only way to resist an approaching wizard's army.

An overwhelmingly powerful wizard marches on Eden with an army of monsters. The librarian rallies his friends and unreliable forest allies while a goddess who was once his childhood friend decides his death is necessary for her rise.