Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears

by David Benson

A love story for all time, Dark Yesterday's Tears begins with a chance encounter between Jane Garrison, an elite fighter who has been grievously wounded in combat, and Edan Duff, the young entrepreneur and creator of marvelous devices, whose genius will save her but turn her into the mystery woman who calls herself Sim. Although left powerless to quench his yearning, an unbreakable bond forms between them. But Edan knows it is a bond that must be broken if Sim is to be restored to a normal life, and that he must live with the pain their parting will cause him. Yet another chance encounter--is it really chance?--unites them once more, this time against a distrustful US government and a power-hungry President bent on making sure that only he can exploit Edan's most astounding creation yet. Dark Yesterday's Tears takes Edan and Sim through worlds both familiar and as-yet unknown as they live out a love transcending time and fate.

347 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2015

About the author

David Benson was born and raised in New York and has lived in Northern Virginia, Brussels, Belgium and Boston. His passion is fiction writing and he lives to build intriguing characters and credible, satisfying dialog. His interests tend toward police detectives and mysteries.

“Late Boomer”–the first in the nine-book series of Carina Quintana murder mysteries–is, as Kirkus Review says, a “…tightly plotted crime thriller…sure to please fans of police procedurals.”

As readers have said, David is at the top of his game in the two most recent Carina novels, "Havana Homicide" and the recently-published "Three Strikes and You're Dead."

David also harbors a lingering love for science fiction and expresses this in "Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears." A love story for all time, "Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears" begins with a chance encounter between Jane Garrison, an elite fighter who has been grievously wounded in combat, and Edan Duff, the young entrepreneur and creator of marvelous devices, whose genius will save her but turn her into the mystery woman who calls herself Sim. Although left powerless to quench his yearning, an unbreakable bond forms between them. But Edan knows it is a bond that must be broken if Sim is to be restored to a normal life, and that he must live with the pain their parting will cause him. Yet another chance encounter--is it really chance?--unites them once more, this time against a distrustful US government and a power-hungry President bent on making sure that only he can exploit Edan's most astounding creation yet. Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears takes Edan and Sim through worlds both familiar and as-yet unknown as they struggle to live out a love transcending time and fate.

David now lives in South Florida with his wife Laura, a photographer.