The Violet Flash

A Novel

Mike Mason

• Publisher: David C Cook
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781434765253
• eBook ISBN: 9781434703699

There's a rip in the blue umbrella, and time—and Chelsea—are slipping through! One moment she was there, the next moment she was not, and Ches Cholmondeley was watching when it happened. And he learns of other mysterious goings-on: for three days in a row the world's atomic clocks have lost a second, resulting in bizarre accidents ranging from dropped casseroles to plane crashes. Are these events related? What's a brother to do? Figure out a way to get his sister back, of course. In search of answers, Ches befriends the local clockmaker, Myron Stinchcombe, who knows a lot about time, and seeks out Sky Porter, who knows a lot about, well, everything. But time is running out. And Ches is torn, knowing that the very deed that can save the world might also keep his sister from ever returning to it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Other Fiction by Mike Mason
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• 1-A Mysterious Disappearance
• 2-Under the Weather
• 3-Myron
• 4-The Curse
• 5-Time and Space
• 6-Stinchcombe’s Clocks
• 7-The Visit
• 8-Sleepover
• 9-What Time Is It
• 10-Idyllis
• 11-The Violet Flash
• 12-The Green Flash
• 13-The Big Heist
• 14-Moonlighting
• 15-Under the Mountain
• 16-Gertrude
• 17-Pajama Adventure
• 18-Resurrection
• 19-Kaliafu
• 20-Good Friday
• 21-The Rainstick
• 22-Time Sand
• 23-Showdown
• 24-The Vault
• 25-The Din of War
• 26-A Scent of Truth
• 27-Above and Below
• 28-Horace Henbother
• 29-Dust to Dust
• 30-Easter
• 31-The Woodcutter
• 32-The Gravity of Stars
• 33-The Secret Ingredient
• AfterWords
• Outtakes from The Violet Flash
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• Ad