Fiction - Psychological

From USA Today bestselling author, Dani René, comes a raw, intense romance that will leave you on the edge of your seat. He took everything I had to give. And now I crave more.He stole me, trained me, made me love him.With cold blue...

He abducted her. He fell in love with her. He helped her escape. Can she trust him?Sarah Evans has returned home after being abducted and held in a dilapidated farmhouse by a group of men.With her is Martin, who turned against the other men...

Every family has its secrets. Every secret has its price. Life had been cruel to Sebastian and Elise. Until the day their abusive mother vanished. Four years later, the young siblings have found happiness at their grandmother's isolated woodland house. But their safe existence...

Suitable for 18+ OnlyGrowing up, the eldest of six girls in a run-down tiny house in an old unused mining town in Russia, Svetlana dreamed of falling in love just like in the books she read. Her dream became a reality after coming across...

Book 2 in The Pain Series. You need to read book 1 as this is a follow on. 18+ After being left for dead, buried alive, Poppy's alone with nowhere to go, no money, no ID, nothing. She's a fighter, she knows she will...

Blaine has never stopped thinking about her. All those years ago when he saved her life, they had a connection. He didn't know as a ten-year-old what that was, but those blue eyes of hers have helped him throughout his life, coming to mind...

From the moment the fat man appears unexpectedly in her bathroom, the un-named writer feels compelled to create his story. Trapped in an unhappy relationship, she invents Stanley and falls in love with him.When Stanley loses his job, he has to dig deep to...

Is it possible to cultivate fundamental human values if you live in a totalitarian state? A teacher who has organised the school theatre sets out to prove that it is. Whilst the pupils rehearse Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies under her ever-vigilant eye, Soviet life...

In this literary anthology we encounter stories of psychological suspense.Ostracised by betrayal, isolated through indifference, gutted with guilt, or suffering from loss, the characters in these twenty-two stories are fractured and broken, some irreparably. In their struggle for acceptance, and their desperate search for...

Paul Cairns, the narrator of this story, is a young journalist with a penchant for the occult. Prompted by a mysterious recurring nightmare, he seeks the advice of Gilbert North, scholar, country squire and occultist, who leads him on an extraordinary series of adventures...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, originally titled Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is an 1886 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story revolves around a London lawyer, Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates strange incidents between his old friend, Dr Henry...

Russell Hamilton is having a hell of a time. His marriage is falling apart, his life-long affliction with sleeping sickness is getting worse, and even managing the simplest matters is pushing his psyche to the breaking point. If only he could go back to...

Based on the Reddit sensation, a horror thriller of a young couple who buys the perfect, secluded house--only to discover the terror within. It's the house of their dreams. Former marine Harry and his wife, Sasha, have packed up their life and their golden...

WHEN RECENTLY WIDOWED SCOOTER JAMES returns to his boyhood home for his annual hunting trip, all he's looking for are a few pheasant and some peace and quiet. What he finds are the demons he's been running from since childhood, and the mysterious death...

WHEN RECENTLY WIDOWED SCOOTER JAMES returns to his boyhood home for his annual hunting trip, all he's looking for are a few pheasant and some peace and quiet. What he finds are the demons he's been running from since childhood, and the mysterious death...

New England, Summer, 1951-When a thirteen-year-old boy drowns in the Charles River, a family is left devastated, and the town of Norumbega is changed forever. Eight years later, Frances Adams lives in the shadow of her dead brother Mac. She feels no identity, until...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, The Professor's House is a vivid look into the domestic life of a 1920s Midwestern town and its people. Godfrey St. Peter, a professor at the unnamed Midwestern university near Lake Michigan, is preparing to move into a...

"A coming-of-age psychological thriller that brilliantly portrays how psychological disorders can affect lives and even destroy families ... this captivating story of crime and loyalty will play at readers' emotions as they experience the effects of mental illness on all who come in contact...

Evie and Stevie share everything: a bed, their dingy flat above the kebab shop, Evie's loving and normal parents Linda and Dave. But when Linda dies and Evie starts suffering from seizures, Evie and Stevie pull apart into separate, isolated worlds. Evie's world looks...

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of the Month World Literature Today Notable Translation of the Year CrimeReads: Best International Crime Novel of the Year Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of the Year Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite...

Doctor Jessica Bennett has just discovered the one thing that drastically changes her life. With her complicated and unfortunate situation weighing heavily on her emotions, her close friend encourages her to take a much needed break to his cabin on a remote island in...

WINNER OF THE MISHIMA YUKIO PRIZEA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair...

A FEBRUARY 2023 INDIE NEXT PICKLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE A short, lyrical debut novel about love, loss, work, time, and the unquenchable desire for connection with others--for fans of Jenny Offill, Mieko Kawakami, David Szalay and Sheila HetiThe second time you...

An unusual inheritance leads to a life-changing journey in a novel of romance, secrets, and the treasure of found family.Blythe Harmon is on the fast track to a life she never wanted. On her thirtieth birthday, just as she's about to lock herself into...

All's fair in love and revenge in this taut thriller from bestselling author Lisa Gray.Ex-crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days on an unusual hobby, developing strangers' forgotten and discarded rolls of film. He loves the small mysteries the photographs reveal to him. Then...

The old house hides her darkest secret--and there's no running away this time...Twenty years ago, Liz left Easthaven to escape the memory of one tragic night at Lakewell Manor. Only she and her best friend Tamsin saw what really happened, and in the aftermath...

Coming to Netflix Nella Larsen's Passing is a distinctive and revealing novel about racial identity, now a critically acclaimed film adaptation by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsg rd.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket...

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Controversial for its honest depiction of work, desire, and urban life, Sister Carrie has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication....

An entrancing novel about a wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye. On a flight to New York at the end of her first book tour, up-and-coming writer Agnes Oliver meets Jack...

The small town of Sullivan has barricaded itself against the outside world. It is one of the last enclaves of civilization and the residents are determined that their town remain free from the strange and terrifying plague that is sweeping the land--a plague that...

"An assured mystery with an engaging narrator and a distinctive cast." -- Kirkus ReviewsColeman Cooper is a troubled young man who can never get anything right-not even his own suicide.And when he is sent to an open-door mental health facility in a small New...

"Some people have a disposition for the macabre. Some prefer fantasy to an unfulfilling existence. Some find that a single moment injects itself into their lives repeatedly until all they live for is that moment. Is that me?"In this extraordinary thriller a man with...

Five entered the escape room. Only four came out alive.Lisa Ashton receives a last-minute reprieve from death two weeks before her birthday. Regaining consciousness, she is horrified to learn one of her friends has been killed - and saved her life.As she recovers, she...

The story of a young homeless man facing stigma and traumatic past filled with pain and memories. The journey through each day living rough in addiction and searching for the next night's comfort. A page gripping adventure into supervised consumption services and finding community...

Thelma's marriage is unravelling as her oblivious husband Wally rediscovers his youthful obsession with Che Guevara. When Rosa, a young Cuban poet, joins his writing group, he unexpectedly books a trip to Cuba. Thelma decides to join him and discovers that he has inexplicably...

A single dad. A boy with autism. A teacher. Can they be what each other needs?After suddenly receiving custody of his five year old son, Ben must learn how to be a dad. The fact that he'd even fathered a child was news to...

When is being selfish the right thing to do?A child wanders the courthouse hallways alone. She won't speak. Or, can't speak.Anna agrees to foster the abandoned girl.But danger lurks in Anna's past. Just when she thinks that all her striving has finally brought her...

When Annika Torrey is diagnosed with cancer, she has no one in her life she can turn to. Divorced and estranged from her fundamentalist family, she sells her life insurance policy for cash, hoping to live out her final days in peace. But then...

A novella of Jack Forbes stories. In story one Jack is a ladies man and a private investigator in the 1930's. He flits from one dame to another, imagine his surprise when he meets the woman of his dreams under his nose and then...

At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young...

This is one of Disreali's best novels, not as a story, but as a study of men, manners, and principles. The plot is slight - little better than a device for stringing together sketches of character and statements of political and economic opinions; but...

In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Princeton University and received the Grade A-excellent-in C sar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, and Chemistry. Two years later while George M....

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in "a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality" (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...

She forgot about her childhood friend... until his body is found under her garden. Can she prove she didn't commit the decades-old murder? Lucy Freeman struggles to find satisfaction in life. Trapped in the shadow of her rock star brother, the thirty-two-year-old craves more...

When sixteen-year-old Ashlee Sutton's home life falls apart, she is beset by a rare mental illness that makes her believe she's clairvoyant. While most people scoff at her, she begins demonstrating an uncanny knack for sometimes predicting the future, using what could either be...

'Donald Altman's Travelers is a gripping mystical journey through Time and Space, rooted in the reality of a Psychiatric Hospital. A Psychiatrist journeys into his young patient's universe and together they fight his inner demons which turn out to be both real and imagined....

"Astonishingly immersive... and beautifully wrought." -- Lisa Harding, author of Bright Burning Things, a READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK "A brilliant portrayal of female strength... In a genre that thrives on the mistreatment of women, Mey shows us the other side." --Anna Bailey...

Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after furtively going...

A few days ago, Karen was a writer and translator immersed in Copenhagen's creative scene, madly in love with her partner. Now she's a patient in a psychiatric facility.Hunger Heart is a sensual, profound work of autofiction about love, relationships, mental illness, and recovery...

Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in occupied Lithuania, imprisonment in the Gulag, and the icy hands of bureaucracy that attempt to thwart his love for a woman with...