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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“That’s very generous of you,” Quentin said.


“No matter what she’s done, she’s still our daughter,” Mr. Wilson said.


“Do you know when that will happen?” Quentin said.


“They’re going to get her on the waiting list for a bed,” Mrs. Wilson said. “There are a couple of hospice facilities a mile or so south of the city, but they’re full right now.”


“When that happens, we’ll fly down to Jacksonville, and ask you boys to drive us to Ocala,” Mr. Wilson said. When we get here, we’ll rent a car, so we can go back and forth to visit her.”


“Just tell us when, Grandpa,” Nate said. “There’s no need for you to rent a car—you’re welcome to use mine.”


“That’s nice of you, dear,” Mrs. Wilson said. “But you need it to go to work, don’t you?”


“Yeah, now that you mention it, I do,” Nate said.


“Then it’s settled,” Mr. Wilson said. “As soon as she’s in the hospice facility, we’ll do just what I said.”


“I hope that doesn’t mean you’re going back to Chattanooga tomorrow or anything,” Nate said.


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