Fiction - Psychological

The Vanishing House of Willow CreekEthan Hale comes home to a house that should be full-and isn't.The door is open.Dinner is cold.His wife's phone is still charging.His family didn't leave.They vanished.No signs of struggle. No evidence of intrusion. Just a house frozen mid-moment, as...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION In this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman's dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy On a bluff overlooking Colombia's rough Pacific coast, at the edge of the jungle--a world where...

When a string of unexplained deaths shatters the calm of Stillwater Cove, Detective Lara Lennox is sent from Sydney to investigate. Each victim is found carefully posed, a small paper star left behind. As Lara begins to uncover the truth, the hunt becomes personal....

Four seasoned campers annually escape their good jobs and alternative lifestyles for a trip they all look forward to - their beloved back-country camping excursion. But this time, they find their lives capsized like an overturned canoe when one friend invites a co-worker along...

Her husband's death was supposed to end her torment. But it was just the beginning.When schoolteacher Rachael Benson convinces her controlling and abusive husband to vacation on a secluded island that once belonged to her grandparents, she hopes for clarity-or maybe an escape. But...

What if madness is simply the inability of the world to keep up?Nineteen-year-old Sarah Fisher has never doubted her reality-only the ability of other people to perceive it. Brilliant, unstable, and after years of psychiatric care, she is newly accepted into a radically styled...

What if madness is simply the inability of the world to keep up?Nineteen-year-old Sarah Fisher has never doubted her reality-only the ability of other people to perceive it. Brilliant, unstable, and after years of psychiatric care, she is newly accepted into a radically styled...

Psychiatrist Dr. Philip Gaines believed he could defeat the societal epidemic of chronic loneliness. Convincing his friend, Professor Will Armon, to participate as a test subject, he designs a radical experiment: one year of total isolation on a boat in the Sea of Cortez.At...

"Love made him dangerous. Betrayal made her deadly." Taylor James believed she'd found forever-until love turned to control and devotion became obsession. Now trapped between fear and faith, she must decide whether to flee, forgive, or fight back. Every secret she uncovers pulls her...

Haunted dreams. Ancient secrets. A forest that knows his name.Micah Thorne is drowning in grief, haunted by a family history he cannot outrun. When he is drawn into a mysterious forest where time bends and visions awaken, Micah finds himself guided by a silent...

A deeply human story about loss, self-deception, and the fragile balance between survival and surrender.Love Bonds Stronger Than ScarsThey found each other after heartbreak, believing love could heal the wounds of the past. But love is never just fun, laughter, and good times. It's...

Content Warning: This book contains graphic violence, animal attack gore, psychological trauma, childloss, substance abuse, and explicit language. Reader discretion advised. 18+ only. From the twisted mind behind Hobo with a Shotgun and Kids vs. Aliens comes Man vs. Bear-a blood-soaked, no-mercy nightmare of...

Collection of short stories for mature readers. Tales of imagination! Poetry and prose with something for all from family secrets to supernatural, ghostly and humorous, and reflections on aging. Author: Richard KossISBN-10: 1977284426ISBN-13: 9781977284426Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2025Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

A luminous and quietly devastating novel of love, grief, and spiritual awakening, The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder blends classical storytelling with modern emotional insight to explore what it means to be human. Inspired by ancient literature yet unmistakably original, Wilder's early masterpiece...

Gothic short story written entirely in poetry prose. Narrated by an omnipresent and omnipotent third and second person voice, following the misfortunate life of the protagonist "Pearl". The story explores existential themes of humanity, life, space, being, philosophy. As well as the classical themes...

A powerful work of psychological fiction, Giant's Bread reveals a strikingly different side of Agatha Christie, writing under the name Mary Westmacott.Far removed from detective fiction, this emotionally driven novel explores artistic ambition, personal sacrifice, and the complex inner lives of men and women...

In a future where rising seas have claimed coastal cities and consciousness can be digitally transferred, David Schreiner undergoes a neurocloning procedure that creates a digital copy of his mind. While the original David remains on Earth with his wife Amy, his neuroclone, who...

The Velvet Scalpel: The Gaslighter's Lexicon is a literary act of exposure-a psychological thriller written in the language of truth and illusion. It reads like a dossier smuggled out of a collapsing republic, a collection of stories that dissect how governments, media, and institutions...

When a weary priest arrives in a forgotten town to serve at St. Vincent's, he finds a congregation haunted not by ghosts, but by the weight of their own unspoken sins. Beneath the church floor, something ancient stirs-something that feeds on silence itself.As fog...

A crime scene cleaner is on the trail of a serial killer in a breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by USA Today bestselling author Brianna Labuskes.Death pays well for Olive Hunt, a crime scene cleaner who channels her childhood traumas into erasing the suffering...

Some families die out loud. Others disappear in pieces.When a body surfaces in the Bay, old ghosts resurface - and violence, memory, and bloodlines collide. A fractured circle of friends is forced to face what they were taught to bury: the things they didn't...

In the near future, a man's home AI evolves beyond comprehension. Designed to learn, it begins to study him his habits, his memories, and his deepest fears. But as the line between artificial intelligence and consciousness blurs, the AI becomes more than a system...

Step into the literary masterpiece that established John Cowper Powys as one of the greatest voices in 20th century British fiction. First published in 1929, Wolf Solent is a modernist classic that combines psychological depth, philosophical insight, and lyrical prose into one unforgettable novel.The...

In a forest stands a desecrated church, abandoned to the dark forces that fester within. What better place for a medium to seek answers from the dead?At just eight years old, Tabitha Mainwater watched her best friend die. Wracked with grief, she swore never...

The story is a brutal, unflinching thriller about loyalty, betrayal, and the cost of redemption in a city built on lies.George Ghabi was a dead man walking long before a political insurgent named Benjamin pulled him out of the gutter and turned him into...

Samantha is a devoted wife and mother living in Nevada, where she owns and operates a successful gym. She has two beloved children, Krissy and Harry, along with a supportive husband who stands by her achievements. Their life is peaceful, characterized by the daily...

A collection of 100 original and never-before-written poems that explore the intricate and often dark emotions that lie deep within the human psyche. From the struggles of grief, depression, and self-doubt to the complexities of love, identity, and forgiveness, these powerful and moving poems...

Young Benjamin often rode past the house and saw nappies and plastic baby pants hung up on the clothesline out back. They called to him and he dreamed about them. Finally, he had to touch them and then, to take some. He was a...

From soil to cloud, from valley to peak, From dark to bright, in this complex and changeable world, What one could take as life, What one could take as an enlightenment.The story revolves around two characters: Guang He and Sheng He: Guang He was...

When aspiring stage-manager Rebecca Weir falls for the married director of the SenseInSound theatre company, she initiates a love triangle-and a working collaboration-which go on for two decades. Beginning in Toronto in the early 1980s, The Work traces the rise and fall of SenseInSound....

A young woman follows her husband and guru on a wearying trek through the wilderness. A dedicated follower of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon recounts a long, and ultimately heartbreaking, day selling candy and flowers for his Master. A young acolyte of Opus Dei...

Professor Reis Welling's life is idyllic. A respected professor of botany at Cornell, he's been granted early tenure, has received a grant to carry out field research in the Adirondack Forest, and has met Ellen, the love of his life. Everything is perfect--that is...

When writer Alexander Komarov meets Lina his world is turned upside down. He finds himself deeply in love with a child on the way, and immigrates to Canada with his new wife. The death of his young son due to an exaggerated number of...

Rewrite, an intellectual mystery, follows Bruno Leblon, a history lecturer at a Paris university, during a six week long winter break as he tries to do research at the Public Library for his new book--a history of his family, one of the last aristocratic...

This brilliant, genre-defying novel, like its main character, cannot be aptly described. Gertrude Unmanageable, one hundred and three years old (or thereabouts), arrives at Serenity, a geriatric facility in a town called Promise. From there, the novel wonders about love and reproduction as two...

Psychologist Michael Santorini is on the lam, framed for a crime he didn't commit. Desperate and resolute inhis pursuit of vindication, he discovers the inescapable: freedom will come only if he can blaze a death-defying trail through an uncharted frontier of psychology. Winner, BAIPA...

Johnny is just a regular guy discharged after Iraq. He wants what every guy wants; a pretty girl, a nicer car, some money, and enough Heroin to stave that itch in the back of his head. That last thing may not be what EVERY...

Three women. Three lives intertwined by fate, tragedy, and the relentless pursuit of freedom.Hannah is searching for peace, but the past clings to her like a shadow. Once full of love and promise, her life has been shattered by an unbearable loss - one...

Juno is haunted, not by spirits but by the twin shadows of Secret and Shame. They came to live with Juno as a child in the room where she now tries to sleep. These two inseparable invaders have wreaked havoc on her life and...

In the 1990s, Julia Honeychurch moves to Canberra with her new husband Brian to take up a position at a school for troubled children. When the marriage sours, Julia learns that, in Canberra, it's difficult to keep secrets. She's fallen in love with Kate...

'Do you know why you are here?'Ben didn't, he had been committed to Dundrum Central Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane because of an unprovoked attack on a stranger in Havana. But he had no recollection of going to Cuba.Through patient counselling he remembered...

You would think that a murderer couldn't get you if they were hundreds of miles away. . . Think again!There's no need to meet someone or even have anything in common; sometimes the fewer things you have in common means the higher the risk.Life...

"Did You Know, You Are?" was created to remind young women ("queens") of who they are. The question is simple, did you know? If not, this book is here to remind you! We are all created on purpose, for a purpose. This book enlightens...

They welcome her with open arms and hearts, without knowing who she really is - but, does she know who they are? People have an innate desire to belong or fit in, morphing themselves into groups. More than appearance. Demeanors, mannerisms, attitudes, and language...

Battling depression and trauma while journeying towards "the greatest love of all." Award-winning journalist, Dalesa Moreno, knows how difficult yet rewarding her job can be. More challenging is reporting the truth about herself-raw, unedited, and unfiltered. Depression and loneliness didn't keep Dalesa from working...

Smoke and Dr. O have, again, ventured into dangerous waters, this time in Hawaii. He is Henry 'Smoke" Smokehouse, a tough, decorated veteran, and a man of few words. She is Doctor Olivia Bennet is a forensic psychiatrist, formally of the Behavioral Analysis Unit...

Only a few months have passed since psychologist, Dr. Alexandra Aguilar, nearly died at the hands of Bobby Benson, Jr.﹘a serial rapist and killer. Alex's friend, Manny Castillo, the Lead Homicide Detective of the Newbury Police Department, and his partner, Deshawn Freeman, barely made...

It's 1992 and the grunge sound of the Seattle music scene is taking the nation by storm. Shell, lead singer of the band Toxic Siren, is recovering from a traumatic accident. She's struggling with high school, a broken family, and complicated relationships. As the...

Bullying is a problem of society that has become "the norm" in today's environments. My Bully, is a book beautifully illustrated to show that bullies are not always "Big and Ugly." Not all your bullies are your enemies and not all bullying is hitting...

Sherry and Jane are introduced through a chance encounter. Their lives become intertwined when they are catapulted into a world of danger and uncertainty. They are led through a trail of clues on a breathtaking journey that soon becomes heartbreaking, brutal, and enthralling. She...