Lynn Mason – författare

Terror-filled eyes. Lungs choked with water. A pounding heartbeat. For Sydney Bristow, it’s a typical day in her not-so-typical after-school job–she’s an agent for SD-6, a top-secret division of the CIA. Or so she thinks.This prequel is the first in a new series based on the smash ABC show Alias–it’s Sydney’s life before she discovers she’s working for the bad guys, juxtaposing normal college life against her fabulous exploits as a working spy.From the Paperback edition.

A crumbling Gothic mansion on a craggy Scottish isle.A secret meeting among the world’s most powerful underground organizations. And lots of bad blood.Sydney’s sent by SD-6 to pose as the heiress of a former ruling family of Romania now mixed up in the black market. Except instead of collecting intelligence, something goes very wrong. One by one people end up disappearing. Gone. Vanished. When someone is found, they’re dead. Will Sydney be the prime suspect . . . or the newest victim?From the Paperback edition.

Journalist Chris McKenna would do anything for the story and doesn't like taking no for an answer. The Vietnam War doesn't lack for stories or men telling her no. Determined to make her name covering the conflict, Chris rolls into South Vietnam intent on sniffing out the overlooked stories of America's most unpopular war. Much to the dismay of the military establishment, she hops a Huey to a remote base in the Mekong Delta and hits the motherlode.  A mission both tactically and strategically questionable. Inept officers more concerned about image than protecting the troops they lead. A platoon of grunts taking fire from all sides. A soldier who is so much more than what he pretends to be. John Rawlins rues the day he met Chris. The last thing he wants to be is a story, but she has glory in mind—for both of them. He figures she won't last long. Journalists never do. He couldn't be more wrong. There she is, clipping his heels on every mission, as wet and dirty and tired as any of the men, notebook in hand, searching for truth in a war of lies. Through jungle patrols and firefights, amidst the chaos and the comedy that is the war in Vietnam, Chris earns the respect and affection of a squad of men who have nothing to lose by telling it like it is. But as the pressure from her editor mounts, as journalistic competition descends on the Delta, as Chris reckons with the consequences of the choices that led her to Vietnam, she discovers how hard it is to separate the story she was born to tell from the story she was born to live. A Summer of War is a work of historical fiction set during the height of the Vietnam War that features a bold, brave heroine who blazes her own path...no matter who tells her no along the way.

CIA operative Kate Devlin just broke a cardinal rule of espionage: Never create a terrorist. These things happen in the world of intelligence, and it might not be so bad if her accidental terrorist, now a rising member of Yemen's most dangerous jihadi group, didn't have orders to kill American security consultant Nick Cavanaugh. Nick could do without the CIA aiding and abetting his death. It isn't the first time terrorists have tried to kill him, but he's starting to worry it might be the last. Thrown into an uneasy partnership, Kate and Nick clash over everything, especially the wisdom of creating terrorists. Kate's not too proud to admit he has a point, but tempting as it is to hand him over to the bad guys herself, she just might miss him if he were gone. As the asset Kate once controlled edges closer to becoming what he was sent to destroy, Kate and Nick find themselves bound by the fate of one accidental terrorist. If they want to survive Yemen, they'll first need to survive each other. The corollary to the cardinal rule of espionage: Don't fall for the man your accidental terrorist has orders to kill. Not unless you're willing to risk it all to save him. The Stars Refuse to Shine, book one in The Sandstorm Series, is a character-driven espionage thriller about good intentions, deadly consequences, and how far people will go to save the ones they love.

They survived the terrorists. Now they have to survive each other. CIA operative Kate Devlin is done being a CIA operative. She's traded field ops for a business she believes in, and a life and partnership with the man she loves and trusts above all others. Nick Cavanaugh has spent his whole life running toward danger alone. Now he's about to marry the woman who showed him what he'd be losing if he didn't make it home. It's the easiest decision of his life. It's also the scariest. Finally settled, Kate and Nick focus on building Sandstorm International and enjoying their new life together. But peace doesn't last long in this family. When word reaches Nick that Kate's Yemeni source has found his missing sister—and that she needs rescuing—he doesn't hesitate to run toward that danger. Without Kate. This is for that accidental terrorist who fought by Nick's side. This is for Kate. This is for all the wrongs he couldn't make right. The one thing Kate and Nick aren't allowed to do is lie to each other. And this is a big one. But the lie that threatens to tear them apart might just be the truth that saves them. Sandstorm Rising, a novella and book 1.5 in The Sandstorm Series, is the story of what Kate and Nick build together, and the one secret that could tear it all down.

A young woman in thrall to violence and terror. The former spy sent to bring her back from the brink. Former CIA operative Kate Cavanaugh isn't expecting her old boss to show up at Sandstorm International with a French counterpart and a desperate request: stop the Frenchman's daughter from disappearing into the Syrian caliphate of the world's most savage terrorist group. Kate is intrigued, but her husband Nick is opposed to their involvement. Over Nick's objections, Kate deploys the Sandstorm team to Istanbul for an operation with no rulebook: get close enough to Camille Dubois to bring her home, without losing themselves to what they're trying to save her from. Camille's devotion to the caliphate is absolute, and living in close quarters with her will stretch Kate to her limits. Worse, Camille's ties may run straight to a Paris-based cell plotting an attack on the American embassy. Walking away is no longer an option. There are no easy answers, only hard questions: who is the real Camille, why does she seek belonging among the worst of humanity, and what will it cost to reach her? The Sandstorm team has thirty days to complete their assignment. But as Camille turns a blind eye to the heinous crimes of her chosen family and Nick begins to buckle under what the operation—and Kate—asks of him, Kate has to decide how far she's willing to go, and who needs to be saved most. The Edge of the Night, book two in The Sandstorm Series, is a ripped-from-the-headlines terrorism thriller that tests what love can survive when the mission asks for everything.

An impossible mission. A former spy who lives for the impossible. Seven lives rest in her hands…but who will save her? Kate Cavanaugh can't escape the CIA. Her former employer wants her to find unfindable hostages, held by ghostlike terrorists in the barren lands of the Sahel, with not a shred of actionable intelligence to assist and meddlesome oversight from the very people she left the Agency to escape.  There's not enough money in the world to make this worth her while. But husband Nick and business partner Jake are committed, and Kate reluctantly agrees to undertake the mission: liberate American and French hostages in Mali. Under the guise of negotiations, the Sandstorm team makes contact with the terrorists and dangles a ransom that will never be paid. But as their con for the ages plays out in the terrorists' unholy emirate, a second deception unfolds behind the scenes. In this game of cat and mouse, Kate and Nick and their friends learn the hard way that they're the mice. All they were supposed to do was find the hostages and step aside. But it's personal now, and Kate isn't leaving Mali until the job is done…even if the CIA's vicious politics mean the death of them all. A Gathering Storm, book three in The Sandstorm Series, is a high-stakes gambit with real lives on the line, and a reminder to the Agency that Kate Cavanaugh doesn't need them…and maybe she never did.

Two broken souls. One chance for redemption. FBI special agent Olivia Wolfe is in trouble…again. She's on the hunt for domestic extremists sowing discord, but her passion has come with a price: powerful people have a vested interest in protecting the Storm Seekers, an anti-government militia intent on unleashing hell in the Pacific Northwest. One man in particular will do anything to shut her down for good. Benji Maddox is the FBI's one link to the Storm Seekers. The former car thief just wants to run his custom autobody shop in peace, but the militia needs his special skill set. Benji has no interest in an FBI undercover operation targeting extremists with a long history of brutal violence, not until a vexing but exhilarating encounter with Olivia changes his perspective. The special agent is a one-woman riot, chaos in black leather and skinny jeans, and Benji hasn't felt such a rush since he last stole cars. Olivia, desperate to rehabilitate her career after a botched undercover operation left her scarred and ostracized, goes all in on the Storm Seekers, with Benji at her side. As they bend and break the law to earn the militia's confidence, the true extent of the messianic leader's plan to spark civil war becomes frighteningly clear. Countless lives in the Pacific Northwest rest in the hands of a special agent with self-preservation issues and a reformed car thief. And who is the Gatekeeper, Olivia's bête noire and true obsession? Is he the most dangerous threat of all? Olivia and Benji have spent years outrunning their pasts, but infiltrating the Storm Seekers will put them on a collision course with their demons and each other. Can two people, victims of countless betrayals, ever learn to trust again? Echoes in Rain, the first book in The Echoes Saga, is a character-driven political thriller that sends two outcasts into the storm...and gives them a second chance at life.