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 Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who 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 increases 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?

«Перед вами долгожданное продолжение романа «Тьма» о невероятном путешествии Томаса Хантера через две реальности настоящего и прошлого земной цивилизации. В одном мире Томас Хантер — закаленный в боях генерал, командующий войском примитивных существ. В другой реальности он старается перехитрить жестоких и безумных террористов, норовящих развязать по всему миру беспорядки, заразив человечество неизлечимым вирусом Томасу предстоит найти способ изменить историю, иначе оба мира ждет гибель.»

By all accounts seminary student Kevin Parsins is leading a good, if not virtuous, life. But like all people, Kevin has his secrets. And someone wants them revealed. While driving home from a day at graduate school, Kevin receives a call from a mysterious stranger who calls himself Slater. Slater demands Kevin confess his sin in the next three minutes or the vehicle he is manning will be blown to pieces. Thus starts a harrowing chain of events. After narrowly escaping his exploding car, Kevin continues to receive phone calls from Slater, each with another riddle, another consequence, and another three minutes to confess his sin. The problem is Kevin is unsure of what that sin might be. And Slater's cycle won't stop until he figures it out.

Земле угрожает самая страшная в ее истории катастрофа — выведен смертоносный вирус, способный уничтожить человечество в считаные минуты. Молодому разносчику пиццы Томасу Хантеру снится сон, в котором неведомые силы сообщают ему способ избавления от Зла, стремящегося уничтожить или подчинить себе Землю. Но просыпается Том совсем в другой реальности — далеком Будущем… Еще можно успеть предотвратить катастрофу, но для этого нужно вернуться в Настоящее.