Set in Australia, Mia’s Magic Wand is a fugitive journey from Sydney Harbour to the Kimberley. A mother, a father and a monk all want to fix what’s f****d with the world. Each loves to gamble: the mother with politicians, the father with weapons, and the monk with God. A tragedy forces the gamblers to push all their chips onto the table.

The trouble starts when Tate Wolsey—a billionaire philanthropist—dopes the mother, Mia, and rapes her. In an act of bitter revenge, the philanthropist’s wife steals his archive of blackmailing videos and gives it to Mia. All hell breaks loose and Mia ends up with the only surviving copy of the archive, which Tate calls his ‘Magic Wand’.

A federal election looms, news of the theft of the Wand leaks out and prominent politicians begin to worry. One of them, the Federal Police Minister, makes a deal with a jailed murderer, Dog, who holds a grudge against Mia. In quick succession, Dog is released from jail, Tate’s wife is killed, Mia’s daughter is kidnapped and Tate is shot through the head.

Late one night, Mia arranges to hand over the Wand in exchange for her daughter but the deal goes sideways and a gun battle erupts. In the chaos, Mia and her commando husband rescue their daughter and flee to the mountains—still in possession of the Wand. Trekking to a highway, they hitch a ride with a truckie and travel to the Kimberley where a bloody struggle plays out. Dog is still at large and makes his last attempt on Mia while she’s attending a funeral.

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.

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.

"A first-rate psychological thriller with finely wrought characters, a tantalizing puzzle and just a touch of romance, delivered with the marvels of Hawaii as a background." Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite

A dark secret can be buried.

But not forever.

Eventually it haunts you, even threatens your life. As Selkie is about to discover.

Selkie Moon has escaped her abusive husband to start over in Hawaii but her refuge soon unravels and she's running from something else entirely.

Suddenly she’s on an odyssey through mystical clues and psychic messages to discover who’s trying to kill her. As the threats escalate, her visions hint at long-buried secrets of love and betrayal, and a danger that lurks closer than she could have imagined.

Can Selkie uncover the life-changing truth before time runs out?

Eat Pray Love meets The Lovely Bones. In this captivating psychological mystery/thriller, award-winning author Virginia King uses elements from Hawaiian and Celtic folklore to explore identity, love and the secrets we don’t know are driving us. It’s a thrilling quest through the messy magic that can redeem us if we’re brave.

Cancel a couple of night’s sleep and join Selkie Moon on the roller-coaster ride of her life.

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

DOWNLOAD THE PREQUEL TO THE SERIES: Laying Ghosts reveals the chilling events that led Selkie to run away to Hawaii: www.selkiemoon.com

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.

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 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. 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.

A necklace, a note, and a request from a dying man bring the White and Bowen families together again in this, the third and final book in the Look for Me Series.

With a fortune at stake, Taylor White-Shaw, independent reporter, is hurled into a journey to fulfill the request of his Great uncle.

Jace Bowen, travel nurse, receives a package from home containing a worn medical pouch holding the remnants of a time long gone. She feels a pull from the past when she visits Gettysburg, something there is very familiar. Zack Keens, fluent in three languages, becomes an interest to the CIA, who offers her a job with the company. Zack's special ability seems to get her in and out of trouble but it will allow her to connect to the past and save the lives of those close to her. This next generation of Whites, Bowens and Keens find themselves entwined again in a promise made by those before them. They must work together and finally bring peace to those separated by war and death.

When Ruth Butler escaped Texas for a sleepy seaside village in the south of England, it was to rescue her infant daughter from the perverted demon she’d married. But after ten peaceful years in Perrins Point, her daughter Annie disappears.

Not far away, a madman has been trying in vain to turn back time. When Ruth turns out to be a dead ringer for his mother, the voices in his head haunt him day and night. The only way to stop his mother’s nagging is to kill her all over again . . .

Ruth must rely on her instincts and the ally she finds in an undercover detective who’s in town on unrelated business, but neither can search for Annie’s kidnapper openly. Ruth could be deported for living under an alias and Detective Inspector Jon Graham would blow his cover. Nevertheless, the trail leads from a faceless body in Annie’s clothes to a smugglers’ cave, where the killer drains his victims’ blood an ounce at a time. But he’s got a special purpose for little Annie. He is patient. He will wait—until her mother comes to save her.

Alex Rommel, a debonair Charleston playboy, isskeptical about online dating.  When heencounters an old college buddy by chance, he learns his friend has found loveover the internet.  Tormented by demonsfrom his past, a contentious land deal, the memories of the woman he loved, andhis sexually insatiable secretary, Alex wades into the shadowy world ofinternet dating only to find the woman of his dreams--a French freelancejournalist, Hope.  Just when he thinks hehas found true happiness, Alex's relationship takes a mysterious turn, and hefinds himself immersed in Hope's world--one plagued by a nagging mother, lies,and drama.  As pressures mount in therelationship and in his business dealings, Alex, torn between love and reality,finds himself questioning Hope's motivations.As the sinister web of deceit and danger slowly begins to envelop him,Alex frantically searches for the truth.Not knowing who to trust or believe, Alex finds himself trapped in ahouse of dark shadows. With time running out, Alex must summon the courage toface the truth before the doors close behind him and he is locked in the houseof dark shadows forever.

JENNIFER MCMULLEN-CRUZ, a Smithsonian specialist in ancient writing, is on a mission to find a mysterious "glyph" cave in war-torn Nicaragua, and nothing is going to stop her--not even a murderous gang of tomb looters who are also searching for the cave, not for glyphs, but for pirate gold. They've already killed one of her close associates, and now they're after her. Things get messy when she falls into a spiral of romance and intrigue with a handsome stranger at the US Embassy. And messier still when her cheating husband wants her back. Her life is further complicated by an obnoxious reporter who dogs her every step and an old Indian couple who may or may not be spirits. But her greatest challenge is in that cave in Nicaragua, written in hieroglyphics...