Description Drew Cleary and I had been working together for ten years and knew each other rather well. When he asked me out on a date, it didn't really sound like one. It was more like an old friend asking another to join him for a drink. I didn't realize the love thing had already started and we were sitting in the parking lot of Dante and Luigi’s on 10th street one night and necking…rubbing noses, kissing, hands on each other’s faces, fingertips in each other’s mouth as if we were eighteen and in high school all over again. It was breathless and magical, but we had so much time and no one was rushing. We’d waited ten years already. It was a love affair to remember in many ways.A short story available on kindle $0.99 ...read more

Buxton, ME– January 25, 2010 – Author Benoit Akoa gives readers agripping thrillerin his new book.Instant Messengertells the story of a woman's struggle to keep a psychopathic killer from killing her own daughter.   Serial killer, blackmailer, and drug Lord—such is the resume of the man known by some as Ghost. He is stalking his perfect victim through her instant messages. To him, she is "The One" and her death will quench his urge to kill.    Meanwhile, Faye Patterson, a former NYPD Homicide Detective, secretly reopens the case of her missing fiancé. A string of murders leads Faye on the trail of the sadistic killer, who is becoming more ruthless. The Ghost kidnaps Faye's daughter, thrusting Faye into the path of his murderous rampage. She needs to stop him before her daughter becomes his next victim. But can she?   A masterpiece that delves in the dark realms of aberrant human behavior, ...read more