Psychic detective Elizabeth Chase doesn't want the case: the man she loves, FBI agent Tom McGowan, wants her to find his ex-fiancee, who has disappeared into a California religious cult.
With unsavoury images of the mass suicide at Heaven's Gate dancing in her head, Elizabeth cautiously infiltrates the cult. The Bliss Project, which entices its new members with a heady mix of sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and the rush of heightened consciousness, is a world of ingenious deceptions and powerful seductions. The clues she follows to the missing girl lead Elizabeth straight into the evil at the heart of the cult, and the central inferno is many magnitudes more deadly than she'd imagined.
With each shocking discovery, Elizabeth's goals become narrower until she whittles them down to just one - staying alive. For as Elizabeth too late discovers, her opponents have extrasensory powers equal to her own.