Adept: Telepath, powerful. Possesses an apparently unique double shield, which sometimes contains the unusually high amount of sheer energy he produces. Also possesses the primal ability to sense a threat to himself or someone physically near him.
Appearances: Blood Sins, Blood Ties
Dr. Sharon Edwards
Job: Special Agent, forensic pathologist.
Adept: Picks up vibes from objects.
Appearances: Out of the Shadows, Blood Ties*
Galen
Job: Special Investigator, watchdog, guardian, pilot.
Adept: Regenerative self-healer. Also ex-military.
Appearances: Touching Evil, Whisper of Evil, Hunting Fear, Blood Sins, Blood Ties
Tony Harte
Job: Special Agent, investigator, profiler.
Adept: Telepath. Not especially strong, but able to pick up vibes from people, particularly emotions.
Appearances: Out of the Shadows, Touching Evil, Whisper of Evil, Sense of Evil, Hunting Fear, Blood Ties
Quentin Hayes
Job: Special Agent, investigator, profiler.
Adept: Seer, developing spider sense. His abilities are beginning to change after the events of Blood Sins.
Appearances: Touching Evil, Hunting Fear, Chill of Fear, Blood Sins, Blood Ties
Dean Ramsey
Job: Special Agent.
Adept: 5th degree clairvoyant. Ex-military.
Appearance: Blood Ties
Hollis Templeton
Job: Special Agent, profiler-in-training.
Adept: Medium. Perhaps because of the extreme trauma of Hollis’s psychic awakening (see Touching Evil), her abilities evolve and change more rapidly than those of many other agents. Even as she struggles to cope with her mediumistic abilities, each investigation in which she’s involved seems to bring about another “fun new toy” for the agent. In Blood Dreams, she begins to see auras, the energy fields surrounding individuals. And in Blood Sins and Blood Ties, other new abilities catch her unaware.
Appearances: Touching Evil, Sense of Evil, Blood Dreams, Blood Sins, Blood Ties
* On scene, but active offstage
Haven Operative Bios
John and Maggie Garrett
Husband and wife co-founders of Haven, a civilian organization of psychics who tend to be a bit too offbeat, unusual, or otherwise unsuited for official police work, yet serve well as investigative and undercover operatives in some investigations, most often in conjunction with Special Crimes Unit cases. Maggie is an exceptionally strong empath/healer; John is not psychic.
Gabriel Wolf
Job: Investigator.
Adept: Shares with his twin sister a unique symbiotic relationship; each displays psychic abilities only while sleeping, using his or her twin as a conduit. They are telepathic with each other, as well as clairvoyant and mildly telekinetic.
Appearances: Blood Dreams, Blood Ties
Roxanne Wolf
Job: Investigator.
Adept: See Gabriel Wolf info.
Appearances: Blood Dreams, Blood Ties
Psychic Abilities
(as classified/defined by Bishop’s team)
Adept: the general word used to label any functional psychic; the specific ability is much more specialized.
Clairvoyance: the ability to know things, to pick up bits of information, seemingly out of thin air.
Dream-projecting: the ability to enter another’s dreams.
Dream-walking: the ability to invite/draw others into one’s own dreams.
Empathy: An empath experiences the emotions of others.
Healing: the ability to heal injuries to self or others, often but not always ancillary to mediumistic abilities.
Healing Empathy: An empath/healer has the ability to not only feel but also heal the pain/injury of another.
Latent: the term used to describe unawakened or inactive abilities, as well as to describe a psychic not yet aware of being psychic.
Mediumistic: A medium has the ability to communicate with the dead.
Precognition: A seer or precog has the ability to correctly predict future events.
Psychometric: the ability to pick up impressions from objects.
Regenerative: the ability to heal one’s own injuries/sicknesses (a classification unique to one SCU operative and considered separate from a healer’s abilities).
Spider Sense: the ability to enhance one’s normal senses (sight, hearing, smell) through concentration and the focusing of one’s own mental and physical energy.
Telekinesis: the ability to move objects with the mind.
Telepathic mind control: the ability to influence/control others through mental focus and effort. Extremely rare ability.
Telepathy: (touch and non-touch or open): the ability to pick up thoughts from others. Some telepaths only receive, while others have the ability to send thoughts.
Unnamed abilities include:
The ability to see the aura of another person’s energy field.
The ability to channel energy usefully as a defensive/offensive tool/weapon.
About the Author
Kay Hooper, who has more than thirteen million copies of her books in print worldwide, has won numerous awards and high praise for her novels. Kay lives in North Carolina, where she is currently working on her next novel. Visit her website at www.kayhooper.com.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Kay Hooper
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BANTAM BOOKS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hooper, Kay.
Blood ties : a Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel / Kay Hooper.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-553-90728-5
1. Bishop, Noah (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Government investigators—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.O587B6 2010
813′. 54—dc22
2009037219
www.bantamdell.com
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Special Crimes Unit Agent Bios
Haven Operative Bios
Psychic Abilities
About the Author
Copyright
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