Telepathic private investigator Quentin Q. Quasar and his partner Nate Braddock are back. They accidentally stumble on a series of kidnapping/murders, and begin to investigate. Eventually, the kidnappers snatch a young man from an Interstate rest area, and Quentin and Nate hear his telepathic cry for help. Armed with that information, they contact their friend George Martin at the sheriff’s office, and manage to catch the kidnappers before they’ve killed the victim. The intended victim was on his way to Orlando to join his boyfriend -- also a telepath -- who’d recently moved there to take a job.<br><br>Meanwhile, Nate’s grandparents fly into Jacksonville from Chattanooga, so Quentin and Nate can drive them to a hospital in Ocala. Nate’s mother has been in a state prison for women located near Ocala, and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. At the end of a series of hospital visits they encounter and capture the leader of the cult that Nate’s mother and stepfather belonged to. The cult leader and his wife, both of whom had jumped bail before their trials, had just administered poison to Nate’s mother, to keep her from making any sort of deathbed confession about the cult and its activities.

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“Why are we leaving?” Nate said. “I thought you were going to call.”


“I am, but not in the presence of the attendant.”


Quentin put his cell phone on speaker and pushed a speed dial button. It took a while, but someone finally answered at the other end.


“Good morning, Mr. Rinker, this is Quentin Quasar.”


“It’s three in the morning, why are you calling me at this hour?”


“Because we’re at your station in Green Cove Springs, and there’s only one attendant on duty.”


“She’s the other attendant. She did this once before, and promised she’d never do it again, and I believed her. Where are you?”


“My partner and I are standing beside our car at one of the pumps.”


“Can you hang around for thirty minutes, until I can get someone there?


Chapter 12