Weekend Briefing by Jes Drew

Welcome back, agents! As always, there is some exciting stuff happening here at HQ. So let's get started.

Mind of Darkness is up to Chapter Eighteen! Which means it's Villain Hunter's POV. And coming up this week... What will Charisa do now that she's on the other side? And who will Emily trust to protect her now that she knows she's in danger? Read Now!

Mind of Darkness

Emily Rogers is ready for a summer that doesn't involve being cast away on islands or being chased around the globe. So when she's invited to an elite pre-college class along with her boyfriend, she jumps at the chance. But things are not all they seem at the Yin Program. Students are disappearing, and someone seems to be toying with their minds...

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Charisa O'Dell is anticipating a summer of romance and adventure with her crime-fighting partner. But she never expects that they'll be kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker to be guinea pigs to a mad scientist named Jin Yin. Most shocking of all, she learns that they are not the only super humans in the world...

Somehow, Emily and Charisa have to break out of the prisons imposed upon them to decipher the conspiracy before their minds are enslaved by the darkness within...

Also, the Mind of Darkness fan art contest has been extended another month, so there's still a chance to enter. Whatever method you prefer, and no matter how good of an artist you think you are, everyone is welcome. So Enter Here!

Speaking of contests, the Whose Story Do You Want Told contest has come to an end and the results are in. The special side character who gets their own short story in the upcoming Kristian Clark anthology collection is... Marina Ivanov!

Marina Ivanov was Kristian's work neighbor and competitor in the Private Eye business. Until Kristian Clark got recruited. But enigmas still followed him, so he hired her to look into what he no longer had the liberty to investigate on his own. So she dives into danger and undercovers secrets, all the while carrying a torch for the handsome secret agent...

Learn her story and seven others in Kristian Clark and the Agency Trap 2.5: Ruptured Reality Add it to your to-read list Here.

Ruptured Reality

I'd tell you I love you... but then you'd make me change the baby's diaper. 

Kristian Clark can go undercover for months on end, combat multiple enemies at once, and even teleport through dimensions. He should be ready for everything. But having a newborn child... is a little outside his skill set.

And the universe isn't ready for little Shannon either. The tentative layers of the universe begin to peel apart and his adopted son gets pulled through a portal in the hospital.

Along with an angry wife and reunited best friend, Kristian travels the dimensions to find his son and somehow save reality without giving up his little girl.

Also includes seven other stories.

All profit goes to charity.

Join us next week, agents, for the grand cover reveal of Kristian Clark and the Agency Trap, Book 2.5: "Ruptured Reality" (And Other Short Stories). Until then, don't do anything that might get you brain-wiped. Ciao!