Special Agent Maximilian by Mimi Barbour - New Release

Special Agent Maximilian

by Mimi Barbour

Series: Undercover FBI, #3

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: August 25, 2015

Identical twins but different men – she loves both!

In this electrifying romantic suspense set in the steamy streets of New Orleans, Lieutenant Commander Nik Baudin, accidently meets up with an identical twin he never knew existed. When his brother Max goes missing, Nik assumes his identity as Special Agent Maximilian. This gives him access to FBI files making it easier to arrest the gangsters who attacked his brother and to stop their trafficking of underage girls. Being that Nik has specialized commando training, he’s the perfect man for the job - that’s if his PTSD doesn’t kick in and leave him cowering in a corner.

Special Agent Maya Barnes can’t believe it when she spots her partner, Max Foster, wandering along the French market without a care in the world. Since he’d been beaten and had gone missing weeks earlier, they all believed him dead. There’s only one problem… though this man might look exactly like the missing agent, she knows differently. In all the years they’ve worked together, she’s never wanted to have mind-blowing sex with her partner before.

Mimi Barbour is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who's sold over 500,000 copies of her books world-wide. Her five romance series: The Vicarage Bench/ time travel at it's best, Angels with Attitudes / angels love romance, Vegas / fast-paced plotting, Elvis / make a song a book and her newest, Undercover FBI / with sizzling conflicts and lots of humor.

Mimi's been heard to say: "I'm an author who loves to read uplifting stories about romance. Add in some time travel, or maybe an angel, or even a little romantic suspense and it makes the story more fascinating because of the incredible possibilities."

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Captured by the Hawk - Snippet 1 for #WeWriWa

Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors. Here, writers showcase their stories with 8-10 sentences. Join the fun and read our snippets.

This week, I’ll share a scene from Captured by the Hawk, my Space Operetta. Kat has stolen key codes from the Emperor’s Revenge in the docks of Hassam spaceport.

Two men strode past the container where she crouched in silence. They spoke in low, cheerful voices as if their business had prospered in the port. Kat did not recognize their nondescript dark clothes, but they bore stunners in their belts. She watched them walk down the bay toward the ship, which was blocked from her sight by a stack of boxes. When they vanished behind the stack, she turned quietly, intending to creep away. She squeaked involuntarily, as her arm was grabbed roughly from behind. 

A man said in a gruff voice, “It’s the thief.” Kat wriggled vigorously, trying to escape his grip, to no avail. 

Footsteps sounded, and a second man came up behind her. “The Captain wants to question the thief,” he said.

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Snippet from WIP Grand Master's Mate for #SFFSat

Welcome to another Saturday of Science Fiction & Fantasy and read snippets exchanged by several writers. http://scififansat.blogspot.com/

For a change of pace, my contribution this week is from my unedited WIP, Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 in the Grand Master’s Trilogy. Note: Seltos and Ythris are dragons, or reptilian sentients, from the planet of Sythos. The Brululians resemble giant lobsters. These stories are full of weird aliens.

You can read last week’s snippet here - http://auroraspringernovels.blogspot.com/2015/08/snippet-for-sffsat-with-dragons-from.html

Seltos crouched and Athanor hoisted Violet onto the dragon’s ridged back. Violet leaned forward to hold the dragon’s neck, her head pressed against the iridescent scales. The Grand Master stepped on the dragon’s knee and leaped up to straddle the back behind Violet. He clasped Violet round the waist with one arm and gripped the ridges of the dragon’s back with the other hand.

“Fly to the Black Dragon’s eyrie,” Athanor barked.

The dragon spread his wings wide, scaring the Brululian babies into their cabin. Seltos thrust his wings down and soared up. The starlit sky vanished just before they collided with the dome and they popped into the void.

Seltos emerged in the upper atmosphere of Sythos, dropping swiftly through the yellow clouds towards the planet’s surface. The orange sands of the deserts predominated on the continent beneath them. Flames shot from the volcanic fissures zigzagging across the arid continent. Peering over the dragon’s neck at the vast amber dessert, Violet recognized the green stain of the swamp where Ythris had killed the Mynothros, an enormous snake-necked saurian.

With steady beats of his wings, the dragon flew towards the isolated pillar-like peaks of the dragons’ eyries.

“I’ve never visited this planet,” Athanor’s thought flew to Violet.

“You saw the place through my pawn’s collar,” she replied.

Books 1 & 2 are published and Book 1 will be FREE from 28-29th, next week.

Grand Master’s Pawn: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TP1N5PM

Grand Master’s Game: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0104OFJJ8

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Terra's Slums - Snippet for #WeWriWa from A Tale of Two Colonies

Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors. Here, writers showcase their work with 8-10 sentences. Join the fun and read our snippets.

This week, I’ll share a scene from A Tale of Two Colonies, the story of an attempt to colonize an alien planet inhabited by giant arthropods. 

Lily strode through the grimy subterranean passages to her tiny room, flushed with the success of her performance and indifferent to the hunched figures of the silent passersby. She ignored the group of five ragged youths lounging idly at the corner, until they moved deliberately in her direction.

“Out alone!” one man jeered, clearly believing her to be vulnerable.

“We’ll give you a good time!” another man called with vulgar intentions, reaching out to grab her arm.

She swiveled rapidly, punching him below the belt. He collapsed with a moan.

Two others advanced angrily on her. She leaped at them, aiming a vicious kick. Her target crumpled in agony, clutching at his groin.

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