Books with author Tj Benham

In a world where dreams and nightmares are monitored by the government, nothing seems sacred anymore. Each year, thousands of sixteen year olds are forced to face the worst of their recurring dreams. If they survive, they are promoted to adult status. Once you're an adult you get to get a job, get married and only have your dreams monitored on a rotation schedule. This year, I face my nightmares. I'm not sure what's scarier, the thought of my nightmares becoming real or that I might not survive.

I survived the trials. I even survived my nightmares. Now, I'm ready to move on and live a quiet life. But skeletons the size of dangerous government secrets rarely stay hidden. When those secrets are leaked, it's my job to handle the public backlash. So much for any chance at a quiet, normal life. Instead, I have to make a choice - maintain the peace and innocence of our people or share the dark truth and shake up the very foundation of our society.

Secrets have splintered the country I am now expected to lead. As Queen, it's up to me to stop the riots and reunite my people. Everyone thinks they have the answers, but their solutions are what led us to this chaos in the first place. I'm caught between politics and my heart. I have to decide if I should follow their suggestions or give myself a chance to be the leader they need.Do I play it safe and choose the obligation I have to my people, or do I heed the urge to follow my own intuition and possibly destroy society as we know it?

What would you do if everything you thought was just your paranoid father's imagination suddenly became essential for your survival? McCaid has never taken her father's warnings and survival training to heart, but when the government steals him away to combat the unexpected effects of a new vaccine, McCaid is left in charge and needs his teachings to protect her family and friends. As though that isn't enough, she discovers her deceased mother knew about the vaccine and left all the clues to save those affected. It's up to McCaid to decipher those clues and use her father's training to save not only her family but the country.

In my world, nothing is sacred anymore. Dreams are monitored by the government. And every year, thousands of sixteen-year-olds are forced to face the worst of their recurring nightmares. Survival of the fittest. Literally. If you survive, you are allowed to join society. Once you become an adult you are assigned a job, you get married, and go about living a so-called normal life. But they are still there, monitoring your dreams. Monitoring you. For fifteen years, they've been watching me. Now it's my turn. This is the year I face my nightmares. And I don't know which is scarier, the thought of my nightmares becoming a reality or that I might actually survive.

I survived the Trials. I even survived my nightmares. Now, I’m ready to move on and live a quiet life. But skeletons the size of dangerous government secrets rarely stay hidden. When those secrets are leaked, it’s my job to handle the public backlash. So much for any chance at a quiet, normal life. Instead, I have to make a choice— maintain the peace and innocence of our people or share the dark truth and shake the very foundations of our society.

Secrets have splintered the country I am now expected to lead. As Queen, it's up to me to stop the riots and reunite my people. Everyone thinks they have the answers, but their solutions are what led us to this chaos in the first place. I'm caught between politics and my heart. I have to decide if I should follow their suggestions or give myself a chance to be the leader they need.Do I play it safe and choose the obligation I have to my people, or do I heed the urge to follow my own intuition and possibly destroy society as we know it?

What would you do if everything you thought was just your paranoid father's imagination suddenly became essential for your survival? McCaid has never taken her father's warnings and survival training to heart, but when the government steals him away to combat the unexpected effects of a new vaccine, McCaid is left in charge and needs his teachings to protect her family and friends. As though that isn't enough, she discovers her deceased mother knew about the vaccine and left all the clues to save those affected. It's up to McCaid to decipher those clues and use her father's training to save not only her family but the country.