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?
