Kim Baldwin (born February 24)

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Kim Baldwin has published twelve novels and six short stories with Bold Strokes Books. Her latest release is Demons are Forever, the fifth book in the Elite Operatives Series. Next up is The Gemini Deception (March 2013). Her work has been translated into Dutch, Russian, and Spanish, and she narrated an audiobook version of her novel Breaking the Ice, available from dogearaudio.com

Dying to Live won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award, a 2012 Golden Crown Literary Society Award, and a Lesbian Fiction Readers Choice Award. Breaking the Ice won a 2010 Independent Publisher Book Award, the Silver Medal in the Romance Category, and First Place, Contemporary Fiction in the 2011 Rainbow Awards for Excellence, awarded by the GLBT Chapter of the Romance Writers of America.It also won a 2010 Lesbian Fiction Readers Choice Award. Missing Lynx was a 2011 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, won a 2010 Golden Crown Literary Society Award, two 2011 Lesbian Fiction Reader's Choice Awards, and Honorable Mention in the 2010 GLBT Rainbow Awards. Thief of Always won a 2010 Golden Crown Literary Society Award and two 2010 Lesbian Fiction Readers' Choice Awards.Three other novels have won Lesbian Fiction Readers' Choice Awards, six have been finalists for Golden Crown Literary Society Awards, and one was voted second Favorite International Fiction Book by Dutch readers. Kim is also a 2008 recipient of an Alice B. Readers Appreciation Award for her body of work.

After 20 years as a network news journalist, she returned to her home state of Michigan to live in a cabin in the woods, but she keeps her passport and camera handy to hit the road whenever possible.

Further Readings:

The Gemini Deception (The Elite Operatives) by Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou
Series: The Elite Operatives
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (April 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1602828679
ISBN-13: 978-1602828674
Amazon: The Gemini Deception (The Elite Operatives)
Amazon Kindle: The Gemini Deception (The Elite Operatives)

Agent Harper “Shield” Kennedy’s specialty within the Elite Operatives Organization is security, although she’s long lost any gratification from babysitting most VIPs. However, her new assignment—to safeguard the U.S. president—will prove to be the biggest challenge of her career. Shield’s mission to protect the first female chief executive is complicated by threats to her own life when she begins to question the president’s orders.

Loner Ryden Wagner is content with her life as a florist until she becomes a pawn in a political deception involving the highest office in the land. Trapped in a dangerous game where one false move could cost Ryden her life, she has to rely solely on the president’s new bodyguard.

As an attraction between the two women grows, so does the urgency for answers, but will the truth bring them together or tear them apart?

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