Mind Game (GhostWalkers, Book 2) Mass Market Paperback – July 27, 2004

Love this ghost walker series

Mind Game, book 2 of the Ghostwalkers series, by Christine Feehan @authorcfeehan. So excited to reread this series! 🤩I thoroughly enjoyed this book about Nicolas & Dahlia! If you like MF, psychic abilities/PNR, both MMc & FMC military operatives, secret testing, spontaneous fire starting & instalove then this is the book for you!

"Mind Game" is the second book in Christine Feehan's GhostWalkers series. This novel stands on its own, however, and it is not necessary to read the first book in order to appreciate this one. I think the plot and pacing are much better in "Mind Game" than in the former novel, however, and the characters are more fully developed.A deceased scientist, Dr. Peter Whitney, had experimented on a group of gifted orphaned children decades before the story begins, in order to enhance their psychic abilities. While part of the experiment worked and the children's abilities were increased, the doctor was unable to control and utilize their talents. The children were all left psychologically deformed. They do not have the defenses, or shields, normal people do to protect themselves from sensory overload. This overload causes terrible headaches, inability to concentrate and sometimes severe seizures. When Whitney saw that his experiments were not proceeding in the direction he planned, he asked for military volunteers, disciplined officers from the special forces, and attempted the same experiments with the same results. These military psychics became known as GhostWalkers because they were eventually caged, no longer considered human, and were forced to escape and live in the shadows. Whitney's adopted daughter, Lily, one of the children used in the experiments, discovers her father's military victims. She moves them into a mansion which has been overhauled to provide the men with protective facilities, where they can live and train to immunize themselves against this sensory overload.In Lily's search to find the children she grew up with, she discovers that one of her dearest friends, Dahlia LeBlanc, has been living a hermit's existence in a secluded residence in the Louisiana bayou country. Dahlia works for a US government intelligence agency, where she retrieves stolen, top secret technologies and information. She remembers very little of her childhood with Whitney and believes she is insane. Her government handlers, in order to control her for their own purposes, have told her that all her memories of former friends, like Lily, are products of her imagination. Dahlia has amazing telekinetic abilities which she is unable to control and can cause damage to other people if she becomes overly excited. Any strong emotion she feels turns into energy which causes fires. Unknown assassins attack her home while she is away and murder her nurse and caretaker - instead of their real target, Dahlia.Lily Whitney sends GhostWalker Nicholas Trevane, a very strong silent type, to rescue Dahlia, and bring her back to be with the other GhostWalkers. Dahlia thinks she is the only one possessing paranormal gifts and doesn't realize what was done to her years before. Trevane walks into the attack on Dahlia's home and the failed attempt on her life. He becomes determined to find and destroy her assailants. Trevane almost kidnaps her when she does arrive and finds her companions dead. She agrees to go with him when he triggers her memory about Lily and briefly explains the situation. However, the danger is just beginning as violent death follows the two, who begin to form an extremely intense and unusual attachment.This is a riveting story, a real suspense thriller, filled with romance and the paranormal. Very original and a terrific read!JANA

Mind Game is the second sequel in the "Ghostwalkers" paranormal military saga that is bursting with action, top secret covert military suspense, government conspiracy, unharnessed treachery and a hot sexy erotic love story that will singe the pages of your book. Kick the reading experience up a notch with the audiobook read by Tom Stechschulte.Sanctioned by some covert organization within the federal government, the brilliant egomaniacal Dr. Peter Whitney has been performing experiments on men that have some psychic abilities to create the ultimate psychic Special Forces team - Super Soldier. Now Dr. Peter Whitney is dead - murdered. Who will carry on with his research?Finding a labyrinth of testing laboratories filled with video tapes, encoded research files in the basement of her home, Dr. Lily Whitney - Miller is driven to uncover the truth about her Father's egomaniacal research. Lily is on a quest to rescue the little girls - now grown women - that her Father, Dr. Peter Whitney bought as orphans, performed experiments on and released. But where are they? Lily is devastated when she realizes that she is one of those orphaned little girls that her Father experimented on - but he kept her claiming that she was his daughter. Why? Lily is driven to find and rescue these women hoping to provide them with a sanctuary to heal from their violent past and maybe with her own research repair some of the devastating side effects that her Father's psychic testing has scarred them with.Dahlia LeBlanc is one of "Whitney's little girls" and now Lily has figured out where she is residing. Dahlia has been secreted away in a secluded convent in the Louisiana bayou. Lily sends Nicholas Trevine, a Ghostwalker to rescue her and bring her home. Nico, as his team calls him, is in for the ride of his life! Dahlia is a not as she appears, disabled and isolated in a remote area with little or no contact of the real world.Nico arrives in complete and utter silence steathing to slip in and locate Dahlia when all hell breaks loose and he is in the middle of a an assasination attempt on Dahlia. Who is trying to wipe her off the face of the earth? They have murdered her caregivers and captured her "handler". Nico is on high alert sensing another Ghostwalker in the midst but he doesn't know who he is - Jesse Calhoun. Who is Jesse? Why does Dahlia have a "handler"? Now "they" have him. Who is "they"?Dahlia sitting on the floor by the cold dead body of the woman that has cared for her all of her life and she is concussed with all of the back - feed of the the violence. Nico communicates with her telepathically "run" "run" they are blowing the building. In stealth, he runs and snatches her up her petite body and heads for cover. Now the assasins are after both of them. But who is "they? Who does Dahlia really work for? Will Nico and Dahlia live or die?

Loved the book and the price

This story of Dahlia and Nico was stirring. Offering depth to the characters, good story line and romance. I enjoyed meeting members of the team and hearing more about Lily.

Highly recommend this book. Adventure, love, mystery this has it all. Very well written. You can feel all the emotions the characters are going through.