Minor Miracles: A Group W Novel

ISBN-10: 1694988457
ISBN-13: 9781694988454
Series: Minor Miracles
Pages: 389
Language: English
Published: 2019-09-22
Author: Ray Costa

Description

What would it be like to be telepathic? How could you use this ability? Nobody knows that blond haired, blue eyed five year old Ingrid Isaksen is brilliant, not even her parents. She has never talked or smiled. The big city school she first attends thinks she is smart, but autistic. Her parents move her to a small farming town on the plains of central Illinois, hoping the local school district can help her open up and learn to talk. But Ingrid is telepathic, not autistic, and she can read minds. Speaking out loud has never been her default mode of communication. She can also identify latent telepathic ability in others and help them to become adept at using the talent. Candidates, however, are few and far between. The Isaksen's first meeting at the new school produces amazing results. Ingrid realizes that two administrators interviewing her, Paul Jensen and Jean Hamilton, also have her talent, although they don't know it. She enters their minds and "flips their switches," gaining two new friends and teachers with whom she can share thoughts. They teach her to talk in three days, a minor miracle. The three find that they can combine their talents and abilities, and together they perform some other minor miracles for the good of the local community. Paul inadvertently opens up his wife's mind, and Charlotte Jensen becomes part of the group. The FBI learns about these surprising events when Ingrid and her group foil a bank robbery using their abilities to stun the perpetrator. FBI agent Lauren Lombardi is dispatched to investigate, and Ingrid discovers that Lauren also has the ability to communicate with thoughts. The FBI already has one telepathic agent, Frank Ransom. He forms Group W and makes them a super-secret department within the bureau. As an experiment, the FBI director asks them to help crack some tough cases. They pool their talents and succeed. The group members refine their abilities with practice and become increasingly more powerful while remaining undercover. Two weeks before Christmas, the Secret Service gets wind of a possible presidential assassination attempt and asks for the FBI's help. The FBI director flies Group W to Washington, D.C. but can they prevent the assassination? The group identifies two separate plots, but the situation turns out to be politically complicated. Only their combined mind reading capabilities can save the president's life, but they don't know if they will be successful until the very last second, and nobody must find out what Group W can do.