ollowing last year's successful The Haunted Air, F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the heroic loner. In Gateways, Jack heads south upon learning that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. In the hospital he meets his father's neighbor, Anya Mundy. Anya takes Jack back to Dad's senior community, Gateways South, which borders on the Everglades, where for the past year someone has died violently every three months. His father's car accident-a hit and run-was three months after the last death. A young woman named Semelee who lives in the Everglades senses that Jack is 'special,' like her. The Everglades lagoon where Semelee and her clan live has a deep sinkhole that emits eerie light twice a year, at the equinoxes. Semelee can control creatures of the Everglades and has been using them to 'sacrifice' some-one from Gateways South every three months. Jack discovers a surprise ally in his father (miraculously recovered from his coma thanks to Anya). There's a smashing, powerful climax when Jack and Dad meet Semelee and the creatures of the Everglades.