Mind controlling villain assaults a lesbian couple who are bicycling, also some kind of 'analog' afterlife mentioned?

[river1836]

Trying to find a book I read in the mid to late 1990s. I don't remember much detail because I was a kid at the time (the book's themes were not really age appropriate, it probably wasn't young adult fiction). I remember a scene in which a mind controlling villain targets a lesbian couple who are bicyclists, I think traveling (cross country?) by bike, and assaults them using mind control. I think there is also something in the same book about minds going into an 'analog' afterlife when people die. My husband thinks Christopher Rowley may have been the author, but I'm not sure.

 

[river1836]

Trying to find a book I read in the mid to late 1990s. I don't remember much detail because I was a kid at the time (the book's themes were not really age appropriate, it probably wasn't young adult fiction). I remember a scene in which a mind controlling villain targets a lesbian couple who are bicyclists, I think traveling (cross country?) by bike, and assaults them using mind control. I think there is also something in the same book about minds going into an 'analog' afterlife when people die. My husband thinks Christopher Rowley may have been the author, but I'm not sure.

Maybe the mind control villain's name was Ted?