Fan
Favorite, Baldwin Bates, finally gets his own story and HEA in book three MIND:
The Reckoning. To celebrate the new
release, books 1 & 2 are both on sale for the rest of the week! You can
find all three books here: www.amazon.com/Jenn-Nixon/e/B002BLNBBQ MIND: The Beginning .99c, MIND: The
Emergence $1.99
Baldwin
Bates has only wanted one thing since joining MIND, to take care of his friends
and keep them all safe. While the Meta-Alien Investigation and Neutralization
Department is busy monitoring an emergence of human psychic and alien activity,
Bates takes his first solo assignment searching for a woman who claims to see
the future, only to botch it up and let her get away.
After
helping to destroy an alien device called the Transcender, Lexa Quinn wakes
from a two-week coma a very different person than she was before. While her
abilities grow stronger, her feelings for Bates begin to interfere with the MIND
team's mission, putting everyone at risk. Secrets from her past threaten the
present and future, forcing Lexa to decide who she is and where she belongs.
When a
powerful, ancient enemy lays claim to the Earth and brings his judgment upon
the population, Bates, Lexa, and the entire MIND team must do whatever it takes
to save the human race before the reckoning is complete.
Excerpt:
As Bates
bypassed the crafters and artists, the scent of Asian BBQ wafted through the
air. He grumbled along with his stomach and hoped a few of them stuck around so
he could pick something up on his way out.
"How’s
it going?" Dina Ranger asked via his earcomm,
jolting him.
"Shit!
Forgot I had this bloody thing in," he replied, taking a breath and
shutting his eyes for a second.
"Have
to get used to it if you want to be in the field...alone."
"Unlike
your brother, I need some me time, Sherlock." This time, he chuckled when he felt her brush
his mind with calming thoughts. "How’s Lexa? Any change?"
"No,
nothing. Never changes. I...just don’t get it."
"Me
either," he said with a sigh, quickly putting it out of his mind to
maintain his focus. "I just got to the park. I’ll check in before I
leave."
"Okay.
And whatever has you so hungry bring some back. Talk to ya."
Shaking his
head, Bates waited for the static of the comm to fade before pushing farther
into the park, eyeing the tables and tents, but mostly their occupants,
searching for a face. Miss Takashi had a pretty face, although older now, since the photo from the collective Meta-alien
Investigation and Neutralization Department database was almost one hundred
years old.
When he
neared the end of the first row of vendor tents, he took in the sight of the
city across the river, and then found the second and final row of vendors left
to search.
He politely
declined several offers to purchase various items like candles and potholders,
wondering why his ‘blah face’—a term his new friend Kim called his usual stern
façade—wasn’t working.
Toward the
middle of the second row, Bates slowed, eyeing a colorful booth, shrouded in
light purple curtains, and a sign that screamed for attention. When a
face-painted toddler, followed by a frantic parent, came running out of the
booth, he barely sidestepped out of the way. The parent offered Bates a weary
shrug. He nodded politely and carried onward, finally seeing a sign for
"Madam Takashi" two booths down.
Author Bio:
Jenn Nixon’s love of writing started the year she received her first diary and
Nancy Drew novel. Throughout her teenage years, she kept a diary of her
personal thoughts and feelings but graduated from Nancy Drew to other mystery
suspense novels.
Jenn often adds a thriller and
suspense element to anything she writes be it Romance, Science Fiction, or
Fantasy. When not writing, she spends her time reading, observing pop culture,
playing with her two dogs, and working on various charitable projects in her
home state of New Jersey.
