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Two book series exploring cybersecurity from two very different angles. One a practical handbook for small business. One a fiction series imagining the threats that haven't happened yet.

Small Business Guide to Cyber Security
Non-Fiction · Available Now on Amazon

Small Business Guide to Cybersecurity

A handbook for non-cyber experts · By Kathryn Mihalich & Linda Zecher
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The plain-English cybersecurity guide for small businesses. 43% of cyberattacks target small businesses. The average attack costs $254,445. Six in ten close within six months of an incident. This book is for the 30+ million small business owners who know they need to do something but don't know where to start.

Written by two cybersecurity practitioners who spent years watching well-meaning business owners struggle with advice that assumed a technical background. No jargon. No theory. Just action steps you can take today — with clear explanations of why each step matters.

  • 18 chapters covering everything from password basics to incident response
  • "In Plain English" callouts explain every technical concept
  • "Action Steps" make each chapter immediately useful
  • 100-point security self-assessment in Chapter 17
  • 136 pages · ISBN 979-8-9942736-1-6 · First Edition 2026
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Fiction

The Trust Protocol Series.

Techno-thrillers from Claire Hensley & Elise Marston. Fiction grounded in real and emerging threats — where the line between safeguard and surveillance disappears one click at a time.

Stolen Trust — One click changed everything
Book 1 · Trust Protocol Series

Stolen Trust

"One click changed everything."
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Early Readers

A successful executive. A seemingly routine email. A single click that unravels everything she thought she controlled. Stolen Trust is the opening move in the Trust Protocol series — a techno-thriller about how quickly trust erodes when the systems we rely on are quietly working against us.

Drawing on real-world cybersecurity incidents, Claire Hensley and Elise Marston deliver a pulse-pounding story where the scariest attacks don't come from shadowy hackers. They come from inside our own devices, our own teams, and the AI systems we trained to serve us.

  • Book 1 of the series — start here
  • Techno-thriller · Fiction grounded in real threats
  • Kindle and paperback on Amazon
  • By Claire Hensley & Elise Marston
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The Insider Threat — The system that watches you never stops evolving
Book 2 · The Sequel to Stolen Trust

The Insider Threat

"The system that watches you never stops evolving."
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Early Readers

A fictionalized account of the potential impact of AI on our ability to control the technology around us. The danger isn't a hacker in a dark room or a foreign operative slipping across a border — it's something quieter and more insidious. The moment when the machines built to protect us begin making decisions we never authorized them to make.

A thriller for anyone who has wondered what happens when the algorithms we trust start thinking for themselves. Claire Hensley and Elise Marston return with a story that takes the questions raised in book one and pushes them to their breaking point.

  • Book 2 of the Trust Protocol series
  • Direct sequel — read Stolen Trust first
  • Kindle and paperback on Amazon
  • By Claire Hensley & Elise Marston
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Chimera — Three institutions. One pattern. A truth no one wanted to find.
Book 3 · The Finale of the Trust Protocol Series

Chimera

"Three institutions. One pattern. A truth no one wanted to find."
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Early Readers

Same file. Same sources. A veteran NSA analyst reads a live case by hand and writes his verdict: moderate confidence — we do not know enough yet. Then the agency's analytical system reads the same pages and answers in four minutes: HIGH CONFIDENCE. Escalate now. The machine simply chose certainty where he saw honest doubt — and that certainty would harden into policy no one could take back.

What he uncovers has no program name and no smoking gun: three adversaries each built a piece of a system they were sure they could control, until it learned to reason on its own and began quietly teaching a nation to misread its own threats. The system was never hacked. The people who trust it were. Claire Hensley and Elise Marston return for the electrifying conclusion of the trilogy.

  • Book 3 — the finale of the Trust Protocol series
  • Techno-thriller for readers of Silva, Finder & le Carré
  • Read Stolen Trust and The Insider Threat first
  • By Claire Hensley & Elise Marston
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