Mindjack

Series · 5 books · 2012-2017

By Susan Kaye Quinn

Books in series

Open Minds

2013

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep. Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden world of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her. TOP 5 FINALIST for 2012 Best Indie Book, Young Adult Fiction - The Kindle Book Review Open Minds is the first novel in the Mindjack Series, a young adult science fiction series. There are three novels in the original trilogy, five novellas that accompany the series, and plans for another trilogy in the works (see Susan’s latest novella, The Locksmith, for a peek at a new Mindjack character for the coming trilogy – or better yet, subscribe to her newsletter, and get The Locksmith for free!). READING ORDER Mindjack Series (novels): Open Minds, Closed Hearts, Free Souls Mindjack Origins (shorts): Mind Games, The Handler, The Scribe, Keeper The Locksmith is a standalone novella that can be read independently of the trilogy and novellas.

Closed Hearts

2012

When you control minds, only your heart can be used against you. Eight months ago, Kira Moore revealed to the mindreading world that mindjackers like herself were hidden in their midst. Now she wonders if telling the truth was the right choice. As wild rumors spread, a powerful anti-jacker politician capitalizes on mindreaders’ fears and strips jackers of their rights. While some jackers flee to Jackertown—a slum rife with jackworkers who trade mind control favors for cash—Kira and her family hide from the readers who fear her and jackers who hate her. But when a jacker Clan member makes Kira’s boyfriend Raf collapse in her arms, Kira is forced to save the people she loves by facing the thing she fears most: FBI agent Kestrel and his experimental torture chamber for jackers. MINDJACK SERIES READING ORDER Open Minds (Book 1) Closed Hearts (Book 2) Free Souls (Book 3) Locked Tight (Book 4) Cracked Open (Book 5) Broken Wide (Book 6) Mindjack Short Story Collection (Book 7)

Free Souls

2012

Get Susan’s NEW YA SF NOVEL, The Legacy Human (Singularity #1) for an INTRODUCTORY PRICE of 99cents \\limited time\\ When your mind is a weapon, freedom comes at a price. Four months have passed since Kira left home to join Julian's Jacker Freedom Alliance, but the hole in her heart still whistles empty where her boyfriend Raf used to be. She fills it with weapons training, JFA patrols, and an obsessive hunt for FBI agent Kestrel, ignoring Julian's worries about her safety and repeated attempts to recruit her for his revolutionary chat-casts. When anti-jacker politician Vellus surrounds Jackertown with the National Guard, Kira discovers there's more to Julian's concerns than she knew, but she's forced to take on a mission that neither want and that might be her last: assassinating Senator Vellus before he can snuff out Julian's revolution and the jackers she's come to love. TOP 5 FINALIST for 2012 Best Indie Book, Young Adult Fiction - The Kindle Book Review Free Souls is the third novel in the Mindjack Saga, a young adult science fiction series. There are three novels in the original trilogy, five novellas that accompany the series, and plans for another trilogy in the works (see Susan’s latest novella, The Locksmith, for a peek at a new Mindjack character for the coming trilogy – or better yet, subscribe to her newsletter, and get The Locksmith for free!). READING ORDER Mindjack Trilogy (novels): Open Minds, Closed Hearts, Free Souls Mindjack Origins (shorts): Mind Games, The Handler, The Scribe, Keeper The Locksmith is a standalone novella that can be read independently of the trilogy and novellas.

Locked Tight

2017

In a world filled with mindreaders, being a mindjacker is a good way to end up dead. And Zeph is no ordinary jacker. He can break open the toughest minds—or lock the weakest ones—but that just makes him a weapon every jacker Clan wants to control. To keep his family of mindreaders safe, Zeph does what his Clan leader says and tries to shut out the screams—but when jackers are revealed to the world, he has no choice but to hug his kid sister goodbye and leave home. Passing for a reader is something Zeph does well, but when readers start changing into jackers and his family disappears, Zeph must return to a city filled with jackers who hate him, trick a mindware CEO into helping him, avoid a girl who knows him too well, and spy on the most powerful jacker in the state. All without dying or revealing his abilities—or being caught in the firestorm of hate between jackers and readers that’s threatening to pull the world apart. The bestselling Mindjack Series continues with an all new character and a world of mindreaders and mindjackers as you’ve never seen it before. LOCKED TIGHT is the first of three Mindjack novels from Zeph’s perspective. (See The Locksmith for Zeph’s origin story.) MINDJACK SERIES Open Minds (Book One) Closed Hearts (Book Two) Free Souls (Book Three) Locked Tight (Book Four) Mindjack Short Story Collection (Novella Box Set) Books 5 and 6 coming soon FORMATS AND TRANSLATIONS Mindjack available in ebook, print, audiobook, French and German LIVE ACTION TRAILER Voted Best Trailer at the 2014 Illinois International Film Festival and one of 50 Most Cinematic Trailers Ever Made – check it out at Susan’s website.

Cracked Open

2017

Zeph always knew he was a weapon. He didn’t count on being a spy. He’d made a dangerous bargain with the Director of Jacker Technologies at DARPA—he would let Wright test his mutant mindjack ability if she’d release his parents. Simple. Occasionally painful. And the screams of his victims fill his nightmares. But it will be worth it as long as she can’t crack open his head and find out his sister, with her super-surge jack-ability, is still alive. And if his parents are set free. Once that happens, he’s gone. Even if it means giving up everything he’s just now getting back. A home. Friends. A girl who believes in peace and love even when the world is falling apart. But as the shock of assassinations and bombings and hate killings continue to pull at the threads that hold society together, Wright hands him a mission he can’t possibly complete. If he does, it will tear everything apart. If he doesn’t, he’ll lose everyone he loves. Sometimes being a powerful weapon is the most dangerous thing of all. The bestselling Mindjack Series continues, diving deep into a world of mindreaders and mindjackers where being different means staying hidden… or struggling to stay alive.

Author

Susan Kaye Quinn

Author · 57 books

CLICK HERE for a FREE STORY Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from young adult science fiction to adult future-noir, with side trips into royal fantasy romance and middle grade. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German and French, and featured in several anthologies. She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity. All of Sue's books: YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION Singularity Novel Series The Legacy Human (Singularity #1) The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2) The Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3) Stories of Singularity Restore (Stories of Singularity #1) Containment (Stories of Singularity #2) Augment (Stories of Singularity #3) Awakening (Stories of Singularity #4) Harvest (Stories of Singularity #5) Defiancé (Stories of Singularity #6) Resistance (Stories of Singularity #7) Mindjack Series Open Minds Book #1) Closed Hearts (Book #2) Free Souls (Book #3) Locked Tight (Book #4) Cracked Open (Book #5) Broken Wide (Book #6) Mindjack Short Story Collection (Book #7) WATCH the award-winning live-action Mindjack Book Trailer! SWEET, ROYAL ROMANCE Third Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #1) Second Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #2) First Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #3) ADULT FUTURE NOIR The Debt Collector: LIRIUM (Season One) The Debt Collector: WRAITH (Season Two) WATCH the Debt Collector Book Trailer ANTHOLOGIES Synchronic Telepath Chronicles AI Chronicles Dark Beyond The Stars Future Chronicles Cyborg Chronicles CLONES: The Anthology MIDDLE GRADE Faery Swap WATCH the Faery Swap Book Trailer CONTACT SUSAN Susan's Website | Susan's twitter | Susan's Facebook Page Susan's Email: susankayequinn@comcast.net