The Quantum String Quartet
The Quantum String Quartet
About the Book
In California, Ember, a determined blind girl tries to control her angry heat that mutilated the man who attempted to molest her.
In New Mexico, Bolton, an ingenious, angry, crippled youth mentally reprograms casino computers to finance his toy robot cars and rockets.
Ember runs away to Las Vegas to escape her overprotective father. She meets Bolton, but they rub each other the wrong way.
When Ember is set upon by unknown attackers, they must fake a marriage and use their powers to escape. When they learn of all they have in common, they become friends, but not lovers because of Ember's fear she cannot control her power when sexually aroused.
Meanwhile, in a small city in Iowa, Gina Red-Bear, a beautiful but alienated half-Sioux, half-Swedish girl, mentally controls the emotions of all the people around her. She dominates her wheel-chair-bound twin brother, George, forcing him to use his own cerebral power to synthesize illegal drugs.
Bolton locates George through an ingenious internet search. He leaves Ember for Iowa, where he encounters Gina. She forces him to fall in love.
Ember, intensely jealous, heads for Iowa and meets George, saving him from his sister. In spite of her feelings, she risks exposing her powers to rescue Gina, first from greedy drug lords and then from her own attempted suicide.
The Quartet decides to try to set aside their differences and band together for mutual protection, though that's easy to say but hard to do. All four return to New Mexico, seeking to find others of their kind.
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Table of Contents
- Escape from LA
- Twins of Evil
- Santa Fe
- Runaway
- Weird Woman
- Genius at Work
- Escape
- Smart Money
- Casino Royale
- The Cheat
- Meeting at Midnight
- Her First Romance
- I Confess
- Mystery of the Wax Museum
- Let’s Do It Again
- Eyes of Fire
- The Girl Most Likely To
- In Search of the Castaways
- Gotcha!
- Grand Exit
- Running Scared
- One Dark Night
- Gas!
- The Match Maker
- Taken
- Unwilling Lovers
- Someone’s Watching Me!
- She Had to Choose
- Nick of Time
- The Tin Star
- The Uninvited
- The Night the World Exploded
- She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
- Friends and Lovers
- Double Confession
- Black Widow
- My Bodyguard
- I Married a Witch
- Corruption
- The Third Man
- Bedazzled
- Compulsion
- The Girl and Her Trust
- The Mind Benders
- For a Few Dollars More
- You’ve got mail!
- Real Genius
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Who Can Kill a Child?
- Too Hot to Handle
- Red Heat
- Return of the Bad Men
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- On Dangerous Ground
- Scream For Help
- A Lady Takes a Chance
- Cause For Alarm!
- Girl, Interrupted
- Fantastic Four
- Clear and Present Danger
- True Confession
- Take a Girl Like You
- Freaks
- Rich and Strange
- Enemy at the Gates
- Danger! Women at Work
- The Unholy Four
- Other Books by Jerry Weinberg
- About the Author
- The Cover Artist
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