Dr. Peter Whitney has succeeded in enhancing the psychic abilities of a group of men in the Special Forces.

Some of the men suffer great pain due to psychic overload, unable to block or filter the thoughts and feelings of others, and need to have anchors (someone to draw the overwhelming emotions away) in order to function.

She is also jarred by the evident animosity between her father and Colonel Frank Higgens, Miller's immediate commanding officer.

Peter Whitney asks Lily to meet him for dinner after leaving the lab, but he doesn't show.

Realizing that the men cannot stay at Donovans, Lily agrees to help Captain Ryland Miller and the others escape.

In her large home, the men can hide while she teaches them the techniques and exercises to help them rebuild their mental barriers.

Even more alarming, he experienced the same complications with the girls as he had with the men: painful headaches, brain bleeds, seizures.

When they were unable to break into Whitney's computer and get his notes, they resorted to killing the men to dissect them in order to discover how process worked.

Lily thinks that Higgins and Philip Thornton, CEO of Donovans are responsible but she has no real proof.