Dana Ridenour is a retired FBI agent. She spent most of her career as an FBI undercover operative infiltrating criminal organizations including the Animal Liberation Front, an organization of domestic terrorists. 

Dana’s first novel, Behind The Mask, is fiction but based on her personal experiences working as an undercover agent.  Behind The Mask won numerous literary awards including the Hal Bernard Memorial Award for best novel and the Edna Sampson Award of Excellence both presented by the Southeastern Writers Association. The novel also took top honors in the 2016 Royal Dragonfly Writers Awards winning not only the Grand Prize, but also first place in the Fiction-Novel category, and first place in the First Time Author (Fiction) category. Kirkus Reviews awarded Behind The Mask the coveted Kirkus star and named the book one of the best indie books of 2016.  Behind The Mask won first place in its category at the Chanticleer International Book Awards. The book was awarded the Silver Medal at the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction.  Behind The Mask was the First Place Winner for Best Action/Adventure Book at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Dana’s second novel, Beyond The Cabin, was released on August 1, 2017.  Dana lives in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina where she is continues to write her series of FBI undercover novels.