Tony Bertauski Books in Order

This practical design guide teaches readers how to draw clear, professional landscape plans from the ground up. Bertauski covers drafting tools, symbols, scale, sections, and presentation graphics.

A step-by-step introduction to landscape design, from client interviews and concepts to finished master plans and pricing. It is built to help students learn both the functional and visual side of the work.

Sixteen-year-old Socket escapes into virtual worlds until strange sensations and hidden truths break through the game. When his mother pulls him into a secret conflict, real life changes fast.

Socket helps lead a rebuilding Paladin Nation, but the return of Pike throws everything off balance. The closer he gets to the truth, the less he understands about his own life.

A year after the Paladin Nation is exposed, Socket is training for something bigger than ordinary heroics. Balancing public danger, private life, and a hidden enemy becomes its own battle.

After absorbing the final essence of a dying man, Drayton inherits a demand for vengeance. His hunt for justice pulls this eerie immortal deeper into the cruelty people leave behind.

Drayton has wandered for centuries, taking the last essence of the dying and carrying their memories. When a dead man's apology sends him to South Carolina, grief turns into something more dangerous.

After an unexplained accident, boys wake on an island and are told Foreverland will heal their minds before they can go home. Danny starts asking the questions nobody wants answered.

In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa reaches the North Pole and discovers an ancient elven people with astonishing technology. Their hidden world is already splitting apart, and one of them wants power.

Biomites can heal and improve the human body, but the law says anyone who reaches fifty percent is no longer human. Nix and his sister Cali go on the run when the state decides his life is over.

Another dark Drayton tale follows the essence-taker into a fresh human tragedy he cannot ignore. Memory, mercy, and violence keep pulling him toward choices that never come clean.

This later Drayton story leans into the series' eerie mix of death, mystery, and ancient hunger. As old wounds reopen, Drayton is forced to face one more piece of the life he still cannot explain.

Six teenage girls wake in a harsh, controlled world with no memory of how they got there. As they test the rules of their prison, the mystery behind Foreverland grows darker and more dangerous.

Sixteen-year-old Sura takes a job at Frost Plantation and finds a place that feels magical, secretive, and wrong all at once. The man behind it may be Jack Frost, and he hates Christmas.

Jamie is already 49.9 percent biomites and tired of living under the line. Wanting more control of her own life pulls her toward a choice that could cost her everything.

Oliver's life is already heavy with illness, family trouble, and a hard grandmother. Then a journal and an impossible snowman pull him into old secrets and a fight to keep wonder alive.

Tyler Ballard sits in prison while the dreamworld his son created starts to come apart. As old players and new investigator Alessandra close in, the series opens into a much larger conspiracy.

Fabricated humans called Bricks were supposed to have rights, until those rights vanished. Exiled to a remote settlement, Paul and Raine pin their hope on the man tied to the system that ruined them.

This prequel turns back to Harold Ballard before Foreverland fully takes shape. It offers an unsettling look at the early break that helps explain the trilogy's dreamworld and damage.

This companion entry circles back to the forces and choices that shaped Socket Greeny. It adds more context to the saga's virtual worlds, hidden enemies, and questions about free will.

Eb Scrooge runs a powerful tech company from total isolation, surrounded by servant droids and old bitterness. Then Christmas messengers begin forcing him to confront the life he has made.

In this short nonfiction memoir, Bertauski writes about crisis, adoption, and the unlikely turns that shaped a real family story. It is direct, personal, and grounded in lived experience.

Ryder is sent to a sprawling ranch for troubled teens run by a wealthy man obsessed with the North Pole. Hidden messages soon reveal that the place is not a rescue, it is a trap.

Drayton cannot leave the Lowcountry behind, and a death in Charleston pulls him into a garden, a young woman named Amber, and the truth of his origins. For once, the hunter becomes the prey.

Sunny Grimm finds a mark on her son's head and learns he has entered the Maze, a dangerous unreality game where losers do not wake. She will tear through anyone involved to get him back.

Wrigley wakes on a farm with her mother and no clear memory of how she got there. The truth has been hidden from her, and leaving home means discovering why.

Van survives a Christmas party only to stumble into a game world full of clockwork toys, hidden rules, and danger. When something follows him back out, reality itself starts to misfire.

On a sweltering island of empty resorts, Kandi meets a lonely boy and uncovers a mystery bigger than a missing child. Santa Claus is missing, and she may be the first to learn why.

Thomas wakes bleeding on a tropical island with almost no idea how he got there. This short introduction to the Foreverland world sets up a creepy puzzle about identity, memory, and survival.

Freddy Bills thought he was finished pulling people out of unreality tanks. Then the Maze drags him back into a world where retirement means nothing and the rules keep changing.

A soldier wakes on a battlefield with no memory, locked inside armor and pushed into combat. When free will finally breaks through, he discovers the war around him is stranger than it seems.

When Tin's family inherits Wallace Noel's strange estate, Christmas at the mansion turns into a hunt through forgotten workshops and old stories. One odd discovery points toward the truth behind Noel's toys.

Chris, whose real name is Christmas, lands at a school where the holiday never ends and creativity is a competition. A coded message warns him that the place is hiding a darker purpose.

A mysterious gift appears under trees around the world, and Avery's family is drawn into the fallout after her grandmother dies. Following Nana Rai's clues means learning why the Toymaker disappeared.

Hiro lives in a gray world where people act out Christmas rituals without remembering what they mean. A dream reveals stolen joy, and Hiro may be part of the last chance to bring it back.

Marie and Fritz find a hidden box in an old toy store and are pulled into a quest involving a wooden soldier and a cursed princess. What begins like a fairy tale turns sharper and stranger.

Arthur wakes in Candyland with no clear memory of how he crossed over or why he matters. Caught in a war between Naughty and Nice, he discovers a talent that could change the realm.