A disgraced journalist stumbles on a story that will let him reclaim his career, but redemption comes with a price: he must place his faith in the racist senator he once exposed as a murderer.

“A cutting-edge game of cat and mouse.” Writer's Digest

What links a massive theft of explosives, a missing ATF agent, and the two largest Texas Universities?

Bronze Medal Thriller/Intrigue — Readers’ Favorite Book Awards 2018
Finalist Thriller/Suspense — IAN Book Awards 2018
Finalist Thriller — BookViral Book Awards 2018
Gold Medal Thriller — Literary Titan Book Awards 2018

After the local investigation stalls, FBI Tracker Adrian Dillard is sent to Texas to find out why. When every lead ends with a dead body, his uncanny intuition kicks into high gear. Who knows more than they are telling? Is the missing agent an unwitting victim, or the deadly mastermind? Who is staying one step ahead of him? The missing agent’s fiancé, a Laredo Homicide Detective, may have the answers, but Tracy Harlowe’s not talking. The secrets the impetuous detective is hiding could get her killed. A chilling discovery puts Homeland Security on high alert. The President is demanding answers Adrian doesn’t have. When Tracy disappears, Adrian knows he’s running out of time. There’s only one question left.

Who dies next?

Wife, mother, spy. Anna is hiding a dangerous secret. A secret her Confederate General husband and his colleagues would kill to find out. Even so, it is not Anna’s covert work for the Union that she finds the most daunting. It is keeping Kady, her selfish Southern belle daughter, quiet after she finds out Anna’s secret.

With all her suitors away fighting, Kady proclaims that spying sounds like an excellent war time diversion. Horrified that the involvement of her manipulative daughter will lead to the downfall of her entire spy network Anna blackmails Kady into silence.

It is only when a life hangs in the balance that Anna relents, ushering her daughter into the duplicitous dance of espionage. But now that her path has been irrevocably chosen, Kady is forced to reconcile her childish perceptions with the realities of a dangerous world.

Through rich historical detail and unforgettable characters, In a Time Never Known casts Anna and Kady into the bloody fray of one of the deadliest wars in our history. They must defy the expectations of their era and reinvent what it means to be a woman. But first, Anna and Kady must learn to work together, to save not only their country, but their very lives.

*Inspired by Elizabeth Van Lew, and the countless other female spies of the Civil War.

Eye of the Moon is a gothic mystery of the finest order, Eyes Wide Shut meets Agatha Christie.

Johnny's legendary socialite Aunt Alice mysteriously died while reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead when he and Percy were ten. They have been kept in the dark about that night ever since...

Twenty years later, they are reunited, along with family and guests, for a weekend house party at Rhinebeck, the sumptuous estate once owned by Alice.

But Rhinebeck holds more than just childhood memories.

From the family butler, they learn that Alice's story is far darker than anticipated, and will impact all their lives, particularly Percy's, before the weekend concludes.

All who attend are ensnared in a surprising web of mystery, Egyptian occultism, sumptuous elegance, and intrigue, where family members, guests, and even the servants have their own agendas, and nothing is what it seems.

This complex and sophisticated gothic mystery thriller is a page-turner you will not be able to put down.

What readers are saying about Eye of the Moon:

It s gripping, intense, thorough. Everything I wanted in a thriller and then some.

This was such a surprise. If you like big house mysteries, Downton Abbey and Cluedo who done its , you will love this.

Eye of the Moon kept me engaged from start to finish. I read it in three days.

Eye of the Moon is a well written, enjoyable gothic mystery filled with secrets, treasures, twists and turns, and the paranormal.

"Truly magical! A compelling story, with an original plot full of mystery, colorful characters and unexpected twists and turns, that keeps the reader in suspense until the very end.

This story held me spellbound throughout.

Eye of the Moon is a delightful suspenseful adventure into a world of aristocracy and mystery. Lively conversations, wonderful, diverse characters and vivid detailing gives one a feeling of being there. Overall this is an intelligent read that keeps you turning the pages.

I could not stop reading as I was entangled in the many twists and turns, a fun and unforgettable read.

True to the promise it makes, it s a book that kept me reading well into the night. It s incredibly suspenseful and full of great conversations and characters."

It was a wonderful escape. The characters so solid and intriguing, the location and relationships absolutely entrancing.

I enjoyed reading it so much that I have already picked it back up! I could not wait to be back at Rhinebeck with my friends Percy and Johnny.

The book is closed, the weekend at Rhinebeck is over, and I don t want to let go of the sense of mystery and magic that permeates the story and all its intriguing characters.

This is one of those books where you'll have a sudden realization while flying through the pages that you don't want the book to end. If there ever will be a sequel to this book, I'll definitely read it.

Selkie Moon is a woman on the run.

In a mad dash for freedom she’s escaped her abusive husband and reclaimed the name her dead mother gave her -- but her refuge in Hawaii begins to unravel and she’s running from something else entirely.

A voice in a dream says: Someone is trying to kill you. Not that Selkie’s psychic, no way.

But the threats escalate and the visions mount.

Is a ghostly woman stalking her?

Entangled in local superstition and folklore, the clues become so strange and frightening they begin to lift the lid on long-buried secrets.

What really happened on the beach thirty three years ago?

Why did Selkie's step-mother rename her Elkie?

And why won’t her father talk about it?

As her reality crumbles around her, Selkie’s instinct is to keep running. Because if she stays she must trust her psychic twinges and question every assumption her life is built upon – before time runs out.

Thus begins a journey of self-discovery that takes her around the globe to uncover one secret after another … and summon the courage and resourcefulness to survive each one.

If you love stories of self-discovery with a woman under pressure and a hint of magic realism, you'll adore The First Lie.

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“Imagine an Indiana Jones adventure only on a more personal, psychic level.” Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review

Winner of a BRAG Medallion and a Readers’ Favourite Silver Medal for Intrigue.

A Message From Beyond

New York Detective Sidney Langston is rushed to the hospital with excruciating chest pains the same night a woman who bears a remarkable resemblance to her is murdered in San Diego. Tests reveal that Sidney is perfectly healthy, yet the crippling pain persists until the dead woman reaches out from beyond the grave for Sidney’s help to vindicate her wrongfully imprisoned husband and to find her murderer.

˃˃˃ Ghostly Intrigue That Keeps You On The Edge Of Your Seat

Desperate to remain pain-free, Sidney embarks on a mission to exonerate an innocent man. With a ruthless killer at large, she soon discovers the crime is more than a simple whodunit when dangerous scenarios unfold. The dead woman’s spirit relentlessly pushes Detective Langston to solve the crime and correct an injustice ”" or forever be tormented by an invisible bullet wound.

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What if your subconscious determined the fate of nations?

SPIES AND POLITICS - CONSPIRACIES/ASSASSINATIONS ... No one but her uncle will hire Nancy, considering her habit of snapping out of amnesiac fugues, wondering how she got her bruises and the scent of men's cologne. When she sees a crime of poison in progress at her uncle's pesticide company, she chases the truck carrying away the chemical legally deemed too toxic to use or to dump. Her pursuit leads to more earthshaking discoveries than she'd imagined, in a convoluted world of international political intrigue and assassination, dark romance, esoteric occult rituals based on an Elizabethan spy code and CIA practices.

This political conspiracy suspense novel introduces a young woman with an ambiguous past involving herself in a killer organization with the engagement of one layer after another of her psyche. The Agents of the Nevermind series dares to explore the edgiest controversies and the complicated lives that disinformation-dispensing intelligence agents must endure as they create bizarre delusions in order to hide the uncomfortable truth about the financial foundation of their country's power.

Fights, chases, edgy sex, power to the people, twists and turns, secret rooms, missing time, and bold truth rarely found in novels until now.

This strong female protagonist introduces the Agents of the Nevermind, a propagandistic branch of intelligence performing esoteric social engineering and conspiracies to assassinate -- unless the gullible populace wises up and bravely resists the mind control. The Occult Revival in this series leads to unlikely heroes and dark romance. Heart-pounding entertainment illuminates our own reality.

"Glossolalia is a fast-paced, quirky book that lives up to its tagline of being a “psychological suspense thriller” while also being extremely fun to read. Bensko balances the heavy themes of abuse, mind control, nefarious companies that are destroying the environment, and government conspiracies with tongue-in-cheek humor and a surreal edge. I empathized with Nancy as she uncovered and dealt with the secrets of her past buried in her own head, and I laughed along with her when her gluten- and sugar-intolerant body insisted on eating desserts–and lusted after the handsome Julio. Glossolalia sparkles with Bensko’s unique prose style, and ultimately left me feeling uplifted, even as I found myself thinking about the things we all might prefer to keep buried." -- Deborah Steinberg Fiction Editor, Rivet Journal and Red Bridge Press

Spy thrillers in the old cartoonish formula of good CIA VS bad guys no longer are fresh and relevant. It's time for the new wave of books unafraid of realism, such as we see in Barry Eisler's spy thrillers. But it can still be outrageously entertaining! While everything in the book could occur, this novel also has an occasional dreamy atmosphere that has been compared to David Lynch films about corruption behind the scenes and the elite's surreal, disturbing sex rituals in Eyes Wide Shut. Please be aware that if you buy the used books, they're very possibly proofs, with the usual associated errors.

A Reader's Favorite Bronze Medal Winner.
 
Suppose the truth about UFOs isn't out there; it's here. Suppose all of us - UFO believers and nonbelievers alike - are wrong. Suppose that one day, after covertly studying the UFO phenomenon for decades, the US Government learns it was wrong to have assumed that UFOs are of alien origin. Suppose the truth is something just as bizarre and even more consequential than the arrival of aliens.
 
Their interest in UFOs renewed by an incident at work, entry-level CIA employee Dave Reed and a coworker set out to a small town where residents have seen mysterious lights in the sky and people have disappeared under unusual circumstances. By the time he leaves town, Dave is convinced that aliens were responsible for the strange events that had occurred there. Upon his return to work, Dave's life is turned upside down when a bizarre string of events results in him being accused of espionage. In an attempt to prove his innocence, he agrees to undergo high-tech interrogation and hypnotic regression. While in an altered state of consciousness, Dave tells a terrifying story that's practically impossible for his interrogators to believe, even though the infallible machines connected to his head and torso indicate that he has to be telling the truth.
 
Lester Garrett thinks he knows all there is to know about UFOs. After all, he's a senior operations officer for an ultra-secret government project that investigates UFOs and alien abductions. What else could there be? He discovers there's more to the UFO phenomenon than he has been led to believe when he and Dave Reed cross paths.

It's the end of the Reagan years, with Iran-contra still smoldering, and G.H.W. Bush looking like a winner in the ‘88 elections. Rob Price is a Nam vet with attitude who's lost his Wall Street job and takes one with a small obscure government agency. When he smells Mossad and a fellow agent is killed, he disappears himself with a satchel of black money. When he turns whistleblower he finds himself with a corporate tiger by the tail and a Eurasian martial artist girlfriend that other guys envy.