Riveting Stories of the Spiritual Battle for Our Hearts
The Lighthouse Series of Christian Fiction
The Latest Award-Winning Christian Thriller from Charles Besondy
When Charley Austin Marches to the Wrong Beat, Life Gets Ugly.
Book 4 in The Lighthouse Series
“What a story! This is one that rewards you the farther you delve into it.” – The Indie Express
“Witty and smart, this was a solid read with great writing.” – Novel News Network
“Besondy’s prose is both evocative and powerful, capturing the essence of spiritual turmoil and ultimate redemption.” – Readers’ Favorite
“This is a wonderfully crafted thriller.” –Texas Book Nook
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My Latest Posts
Reviewer’s Choice Awards 2021-2022
Two books within The Lighthouse series garnered a total of three medals in the recently announced 2021-2022 Reviewer's Choice Awards run by the folks at Reader Views. The Chase was awarded a Silver in the Fiction category for mystery/thrillers. The judges also gave it...
Inspiring Others to Write
On April 23 I'm appearing at Inspiration Fest to do a reading and discuss how the Holy Spirt has guided my writing since 2017. It'll be a lot of fun. Based on previous experience, there will be several folks in the audience who decide to start writing, or to publish...
Snare eBook Sample
I'm now offering a free sample of The Snare in eBook format. Grab it by following this link to Bookfunnel. Just sign up for my always-interesting monthly newsletter and the eBook is yours (both ePub and Kindle formats are available). The sample includes 5 of the...
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The Chase Audiobook Sample Chapter 3
The Chase is book two in The Lighthouse series of Christian thrillers. In this scene, Sheryl, the 30-something protagonist, has just learned she is pregnant. At first excited, she now hesitates to tell her husband, Clay. Self-doubt and a sense of unworthiness begin to...
The Hidden Saboteur Audiobook Excerpt Chapter 32
The Hidden Saboteur is book one in The Lighthouse series of Christian thrillers. In this chapter, Clay Austin is attending the memorial service for Charley Gragg, a great uncle who was like a father to him. Clay won't know until the next day that his uncle...
Biography
In The Beginning
It all began as I sat uneasily in a high-back chair while 14 men in a semi-circle studied me intensely through dim candlelight rippled by rising smoke from white sage incense.
I was attending my first Christian men’s retreat. It was May 2015 a few days before my 65th birthday, and it was my turn to be in The Chair.
After long moments of silent prayer, each man, in turn, told me what the Holy Spirt was telling them to say as they studied me. I was not to respond – just listen and be present to their words.
Today, I can’t recall most of what was said to me in that room. What I do remember, because it struck such a powerful chord in me that night, was three of the men had said, “I see you as a tall shining beacon.”
I can assure you, up to that moment I didn’t see myself as anything close to a tall shining beacon – quite the contrary – but from that moment on I gradually began to see me as God intended. Something else happened that night in the cabin on the San Saba River in central Texas. Without me knowing it, the Holy Spirit had planted a seed that three years later would become my first novel, “The Hidden Saboteur.”
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