Explore the blurred lines between sanity and madness, right and wrong, and good and evil.
Center Street
April 2010
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Featuring: Paradise; Brad Raines
448 pages ISBN: 1599951967 EAN: 9781599951966 Hardcover Add to Wish List
FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case
yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young
women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's
picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines
appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of
the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private
psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose
are extraordinarily gifted.
It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who
witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped
his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also
have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the
final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body.
In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists
Paradise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends
this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities
that most 'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to
question whether sanity resides outside the hospital
walls...or inside.
As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his
gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal
to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young
forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector's next
target.
The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven
women. Can Paradise help before it's too late?