Books with author T.S. Benjamin

After years spent studying alien life in the seas of Europa, Dr. Kiara Lacroix has become one of Earth’s foremost exobiology experts. Her research brings her to the attention of the Global Space Federation, which has a top-secret mission for her: an advanced alien civilization has been discovered in the depths of an icy planet five light-years from Earth, and Kiara is expected to join the crew making first contact.Kiara has her hesitations, but as usual her scientific curiosity gets the better of her. She and her crew will be using experimental technology which establishes long-distance contact via a dream-reality beamed through a wormhole: the spacetime sequence. It’s even riskier than it sounds.Of course, Kiara’s not the only one with hesitations about the GSF’s actions. And some of those people have the resources—and the access to GSF’s classified mission information—to do something about them.A Spacetime Tale is high-concept hard science fiction at its finest.Cover Art by Jeff Brown

Pirate Flotilla One is doing well in the Badlands. A fourth squadron is about to be formed under the command of Llewellyn Terrant. Four new freighters will improve the flotilla’s logistics capabilities. In concert with the Royal Navy Badlands Squadron, they continue to enforce Measure 200, the anti-slavery law, throughout the region. The pirate settlement on Agra 5 will be used by all squadrons and, for the first time, a permanent home is envisioned for all the pirate families. However, events in the war between the Aurora Empire and the Orion Confederation will impact Raferty Hawkins and his flotilla yet again. Hawkins learns of the death of a close friend in a costly defeat for the Royal Navy at Excandor. This defeat changes the immediate future for Raferty and his flotilla. Queen Alexis, monarch of the Aurora Empire, is tired of the incompetence and the losses. She issues a Call to Service that a peer is required to obey. That peer is Raferty Hawkins. His given mission is easy… and hard. All he has to do is win a victory over Orion forces. The Royal Navy has suffered many defeats but the most recent one at Excandor is the costliest on both a personal and a professional basis for Alexis. The Queen is tired of it and tasks her favorite pirate with reversing the trend. As a peer of the realm, Hawkins will command Royal Navy ships and personnel for the first time. He must produce and execute a plan that achieves the elusive win Queen Alexis wants. The two earlier forays into this war by Flot 1 had been for revenge against the OrCons for their destruction of the pirate settlement on Ulatar. It will be different this time. Raferty Hawkins, the Duke of Black Hallow, must answer a summons, but this is not flotilla business. He will let the ships in Flot 1 decide whether to support his mission. With or without them, he must go to the Aurora Empire. With help from his trusted friends and companions, Hawkins takes on his biggest task yet. After the battles are over, he will get an even greater mission, one that will last for a long, long time.

Three Monsters, Two Girls, and a School teacher. What could possibly go wrong?Having traveled back in time to foil a plot that would have destroyed all of Culver Falls, Apple and Lucy return to find subtle changes due to their meddling with history. Just how far reaching did their visit to the past change history? And what is the secret that has put a barrier between Apple and Lucy’s mom?But all that takes a backseat when events that defy explanation begin to occur. Dead sheep are found in trees seventy feet above the ground; landslides are causing train derailments with alarming frequency; townspeople are disappearing without a trace; and forest fires break out almost daily—even in the pouring rain.Finally, a student from their school is captured by one of the creatures, and the girls go into the forest to rescue her. There, Apple has to make a choice that will mean life or death for the people she loves. But in so doing, she will have to choose what is more important—their own lives, or the life of a monster.Join the girls, along with their friends from Ferndale, and the hilarious antics of Babbs, as they find more than they expect in the forest around Ferndale.Book 3 of The Culver Falls ChroniclesFor grades 4 - 9Age range 8 -14

Two friends, one derelict mansion, and an ancient conflict The first book in the Culver Falls Chronicles that begins with The Mystery of Maywood Mansion. Nothing unusual ever happens in Culver Falls, or so Apple Lewis and Lucy Cooper think. That is, until the girls take home a mystical book from an estate sale at the old Maywood Mansion. The girls are amazed to discover that the book can write itself—and it is recording their lives, right as it happens. They soon find out that there are others who want the book, and will stop at nothing to possess it—even murder. Pulled into a centuries-old conflict for which nothing could have prepared them, the girls flee for their lives, and find help in the most unexpected places. So begins their adventure where they meet people who should not exist; are befriended by a princess warrior; evade trolls; outsmart vicious wolves; escape hostile mountain elves, and finally come face to face with the evil Tenebrous—the very one who desires the book. When facing evil, will they surrender themselves, and the book, or fight to the end? Book 1 of The Culver Falls Chronicles For grades 4 - 9 Age range 8 - 14

Three Monsters, Two Girls, and a School teacher. What could possibly go wrong? Having traveled back in time to foil a plot that would have destroyed all of Culver Falls, Apple and Lucy return to find subtle changes due to their meddling with history. Just how far reaching did their visit to the past change history? And what is the secret that has put a barrier between Apple and Lucy’s mom? But all that takes a backseat when events that defy explanation begin to occur. Dead sheep are found in trees seventy feet above the ground; landslides are causing train derailments with alarming frequency; townspeople are disappearing without a trace; and forest fires break out almost daily—even in the pouring rain. Finally, a student from their school is captured by one of the creatures, and the girls go into the forest to rescue her. There, Apple has to make a choice that will mean life or death for the people she loves. But in so doing, she will have to choose what is more important—their own lives, or the life of a monster. Join the girls, along with their friends from Ferndale, and the hilarious antics of Babbs, as they find more than they expect in the forest around Ferndale. Book 3 of The Culver Falls Chronicles For grades 4 - 9 Age range 8 -14

After years spent studying alien life in the seas of Europa, Dr. Kiara Lacroix has become one of Earth’s foremost exobiology experts. Her research brings her to the attention of the Global Space Federation, which has a top-secret mission for her: an advanced alien civilization has been discovered in the depths of an icy planet five light-years from Earth, and Kiara is expected to join the crew making first contact.Kiara has her hesitations, but as usual her scientific curiosity gets the better of her. She and her crew will be using experimental technology which establishes long-distance contact via a dream-reality beamed through a wormhole: the spacetime sequence. It’s even riskier than it sounds.Of course, Kiara’s not the only one with hesitations about the GSF’s actions. And some of those people have the resources—and the access to GSF’s classified mission information—to do something about them.A Spacetime Tale is high-concept hard science fiction at its finest.Cover art by Jeff Brown

To save their future, they must change the past Apple and Lucy don’t have long to wait for Tenebrous to return from hiding. To prepare them for the next battle, Queen Avaric begins teaching them, but lessons are soon interrupted by the intrusion of Lord Tenebrous. But that isn’t all that is amiss. Someone is stirring up anti-human sentiment at the school of mythical people, so the queen asks the girls to attend the school to discover the source of the unrest. Who can it be? Is it Tenebrous? Is it the diabolical, yet inept, Prince Olrick? When they discover the anti-human plot, they find that it is much more deadly than a bit of student unrest. Can the girls foil the murderous plan? Can anyone? Their solution is unimaginable in the human world, but that has never stopped the girls before. In the process, Lucy discovers that Apple’s mom’s death was not an accident, and Apple is determined to do something to prevent her mother’s murder. But how? Her mom died ten years ago. Apple must choose: save her mom, or save the people of Culver Falls. She cannot do both. Book 2 of The Culver Falls Chronicles For grades 4 - 9 Age range 8 -14

Season One revealed the intricate pieces of the latest saga in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now learn new secrets of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in this keepsake volume. In the wake of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s collapse, Agent Coulson and his team must work even harder to protect the world against the threats it doesn't even know exist. Starring Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge, along with a star-studded list of guests, Season Two is a whirlwind of betrayal and heroism. This collection will put fans on the inside with exclusive interviews, detailed production art and never-before-seen photography. The creators of the hit show reveal all!