Dekker, Ted

When a serial killer claims his fourth victim, FBI Special Agent Brad Raines contacts the Center for Wellness and Iintelligence, a psychiatric hospital for gifted but troubled individuals. As he profiles the killer, who taunts authorities by leaving bridal veils at his crime scenes, Raines is assisted by Paradise, a young schizophrenic with the ability to experience the victims' final moments. Events start getting extremely personal to Raines when a friend becomes the killer's next target.

Years after humanity's brush with the apocalypse, the world is unaware that everyone walking the earth has been stripped of true humanity, until a young man named Rom stumbles upon a vial of blood and a piece of cryptic writing that will bring him back to life and lead him on a perilous journey to awaken humanity.

Retold in graphic novel format, the four heroic young Forest Guard recruits embark on their last mission to recover the lost Books of History before the Dark One unleashes their power to enslave humanity.

Relates, in graphic novel format, that as Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal continue their quest for the four still missing Books of History, Billos makes a decision that has devastating consequences for himself and his companions, especially the devoted Darsal.

As the land of the Forest Dwellers is increasingly decimated by the Horde, Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Guard, chooses four sixteen-year-old recruits for a special mission--to find the seven lost Books of History that have power over the past, present, and future.

As Johnis and the other "chosen" recruits of the Forest Guard are pulled into deeper danger to secure the seven lost Books of History, Johnis tries to rescue his mother from enslavement by the Horde, but risks betraying the Forest Dwellers.

The Chosen Ones need Elyon's grace to face their greatest threat yet, but Darsal is torn between her new mission, trying to love the Horde as Elyon asked her to, and her original one, especially now that Johnis and Silvie no longer seem to be on her side.

Thomas Hunter, forced to alternate between two worlds that face destruction, searches desperately for a way to stop a deadly virus days before its power will be unleashed and struggles to lead an outnumbered people against the horde that would kill them all.

A stranger arrives in the small town of Paradise and becomes the center of attention when he reveals he has the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, but his actions lead to a deadly showdown between good and evil that will change the town and its residents forever.