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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When they reached the door to the room, Nate said, “Grandma, why don’t you and Grandpa go in first. I’ll be right behind you.”


Mr. and Mrs. Wilson pushed the door all the way open and entered the room. Quentin saw that there were two beds in the room, and Mrs. Wilson went straight to the bed by the window. Nate’s mother had several wires and tubes attached to her, but Quentin recognized her as the woman he and Nate had encountered when Nate had gone to retrieve his things from his house a couple of years earlier—and later at the trial. He also noted that her hands were handcuffed to the rails on each side of the bed.


The woman looked up when Mr. and Mrs. Wilson walked closer to the bed and said, “Mom, Dad. What are you doing here?”


“We got word that you were ill, so we came down to visit,” Mrs. Wilson said. “And look who we brought with us.”


Nate’s mother looked in their direction, spotted Nate and Quentin, raised her voice and said, “What are theydoing here?”


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