Fiction - Psychological

Thomas Paul Stanton was born blessed with a strong personal character, exceptional good looks and, at first glance, appeared to be the all American dream boy. Born in 1960, at the end of the baby boom, he was raised in a socially revolutionary era...

*** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!!! *** When Dr. Victor Albrecht moves to Portland, Oregon, he's caught between a friend's seductive fiancé and a suicidal young gothic patient with whom he's fallen in love. The deeper he explores his patient's psyche, the...

A massive conspiracy has been brewing in the USA since the end of WWII when two young American servicemen came home from the ruins of Berlin with stolen Nazi treasure and embarked on the creation of the "New America." Over fifty years they became...

A Suspenseful, Psychological, Murder Mystery Story Imagine a day after your 16-year-old daughter had an accident she is revealing that she was someone else and she was murdered. Upon checking her claim, you are shocked that she is 100% accurate. It is scary, powerful...

After many years of demanding studies of medicine, a Gift of Healing chooses to manifest itself through Dr. Peter Thornton's unwilling hands. The new ability plays havoc with his professional life. The Gift becomes an insidious curse as it threatens to obliterate his promising...

"Mary At The Window" is a love story unlike any other love story you have ever read. It is a sensitive and touching look at the true meanings of life and love. Follow Mary through her life in her search for love, and find...

"Not every story has a happy ending. Should I be behind bars? What justice would that serve? You see, there is no real right or wrong here. Don't you agree?" What do you do when a friend confesses to a crime? What do you...

Genre-busting short fiction by acclaimed independent author Cliff Burns. Nineteen stories that defy conventional boundaries and safe zones. Original, daring, provocative: includes "Daughter", a harrowing tale of abduction, and the previously unpublished novella "Second Sight". This collection, his first in fifteen years, demonstrates in...

C.K., a man on death row for killing his child lover, and Johnnie, now a psychiatrist, relive their childhood friendship. Both were victims of a child pornography cult that operated out of their daycare center in 1983. They are single children of two very...

Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche. An experimental fiction,...

Author: Donald CorleyISBN-10: 0759681546ISBN-13: 9780759681545Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.10w x 0.61d

Author: Mark AtwellISBN-10: 0759640882ISBN-13: 9780759640887Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2003Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.12h x 5.08w x 0.76d

When criminal psychologist Mira Skyles is assigned by a court order to evaluate Egon Norwood, a person of interest in a serial murder investigation, she recognizes both a man with a dissociative identity disorder and the boy who once saved her life, with whom...

Journey along with sixty-one year old Ruth Lily, school teacher, devoted grandmother, and avid gardener of Annapolis, Maryland, who one year prior lost her beloved husband, Roger, unexpectedly and cannot shake grief's ugly aftermath. Suffering from dissociative amnesia and denial, her grief is deemed,...

Bryan "Weed" Tecco, drug dealer and video game tester, is on the run having stolen the files of a special game called "The Situation". Chased by corporate security, dogged by visions called "Shadows", he survives a harrowing accident and becomes separated from a friend...

'Rebecca's story is heart-wrenching and compelling'When her partner of twenty-five years dies, Rebecca Collins discovers the secret life he had been living. Grieving, and with her sense of self in ruins, she embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about the man she...

Will renewal be their claim or a struggle to attain?In their quest for renewal, four women tussle with the challenges of a dysfunctional family, work pressure, reputation, unknown genealogy, violence, and confidence building.Sasha, Moira, Ruby, and Rosa face diverse haunting situations from their past...

Can you ever really leave your past behind?It's Melbourne in 1980 and eighteen-year-old Annette's world is spiralling out of control. That seems set to change when she meets a charismatic, young man. Can the future he promises fill the void in Annette's life and...

In life you find three kinds of people: those who will change your life, those who will harm your life and those who will be your life.- AnonymousA woman blindsided by a lover who is not what he appears, a devoted husband who breaks...

A lost man was reading a book that was full of mystery; he was trapped in a chamber that showed him everyone's life after death. The man kept on reading for his questions to be answered, but the book only opened up a new...

Nobody knew how and why Jane Dzhugashvili, a small and wrinkled Russian psychic, had landed in Noliar. Addicted to cigarettes, vodka, and curse words, she had firmly rooted herself into the old PA town like a stubborn old vine. When Dorothea Sishy disappears, two...

Radiance is a psychological and spiritual odyssey. It is the story of an American family emerging from the perils of the Great Depression into a post-war America basking in the material comforts of a new society. Gerald and Georgia Brennan have escaped the poverty...

Nearly forty years ago, Lux Madigan's twin sister, Nix, vanished from the asylum where they were institutionalized during the Eugenics Movement. Lux is haunted by her disappearance but more by what happened in the moments before. Or at least what she recalls happening. Approaching...

Maria, Ben and Javy graduate from the University of Arizona together. Maria has dated both but marries Ben. Ben and Javy become deputies in Cochise, a county bordering Mexico where drug and people smugglers are as thick as cacti, dangerous as rattlesnakes, and dead...

A former mental patient helps an addicted homeless man recover a life he thought lost. In the process he develops a relationship with a novice psych nurse (the antithesis of Nurse Ratchet) but first he must cross the borders of the states, nay, the...

Craig Mayeux's novel is a searing, searching portrait of mirth and misery, crammed with tender innocence, optimistic bonding and crashing sorrow-all weighed down by blind cultural precepts. Two boys, who share a crib in a New York institution, are suddenly immersed as "orphan train"...

Seeking self-fulfillment as an artist, Lila Brandt flees her abusive husband, Aaron, and moves to Greenwich Village in the 1930's with her two young daughters. On Aaron's Sunday visits, Estelle, aged nine, guides five-year-old Floss across the no-man's-land between their warring parents. A devoted...

Uncle Paul and Marianne arrived at their usual feeding bench near the thicket of trees that lined one edge of DeSoto Park. Marianne was trembling as she scanned the premises for possible rescuers, but spotted no other occupants across the field. Not even a...

Abe Jones came into this world kicking and screaming, to a single mother of seventeen. She was of that dark-skinned variety of Blacks, that his father could not love. His grand mother on his father's side, insisted that his father marry his mother, Lucille,...

Drug addiction and alcoholism can reach out and touch anyone-any family, any class, and any color, anywhere in the world. But overcoming it can be incredibly difficult. Brutally honest, yet full of hope, Tales from a Mad Azorean takes a look at one man's...

In this gripping sequel to The Loner, self-made, pretty boy millionaire Nathan Kirkland has murdered his wife and must now pay for his crime of passion, locked behind the walls of maximum security at the Arizona State Prison. Six years after being incarcerated with...

A medical journalist, renounced by her fiancé, Olivia Moreno leaves the States to live in Paris with her sister, Connie. Considered reserved, on a whim, Olivia attends a masked charity ball in London. A masked Olivia escapes her comfort zone, partying and conversing with...

An abusive childhood has forged Nathan Kirkland into the man he has become-a hard-working, strong-minded, self-made millionaire. Add to that his extraordinary good looks, and he appears to have it all. There's just one problem: to blunt the pain of his past, Nathan has...

Troubled teenager Walter Tyrell loves fire, but he knows as well as anyone else that playing with it will only get you burned. Still, he cannot control himself from grabbing some gasoline and a book of matches and setting off into the night. But...

Winner of No Awards! Panned by Critics! But a Favorite of Adult Readers! Lorna Heineriche is still a virgin in her last year of high school, but she has a budding sensual hunger. Unaware that her desires are about to be fulfilled, she takes...

Arrested for shoplifting, a woman with amnesia fears both her past and her future, and claims no knowledge of the mysterious young girl found with her. Sins of the Father focuses on the efforts of Dr. Allyson Freemont, to bring Feona Parker face to...

Craig Mayeux's novel is a searing, searching portrait of mirth and misery, crammed with tender innocence, optimistic bonding and crashing sorrow-all weighed down by blind cultural precepts. Two boys, who share a crib in a New York institution, are suddenly immersed as "orphan train"...

Binge! takes you into the world of the heavy-drinker and the struggle to overcome an ingrained alcohol habit that is rooted in childhood trauma. Andy is a man troubled by his past. Brought up by an aunt and uncle following the deaths of his...

Karma Francois is a thirty-something, California-born BoHo BAP (Bohemian Black American Princess) with Louisiana roots and urban debutante flair. But her life has suddenly taken a drastic turn. Her relationships and the museum curator career that she struggled to form in New York City...

Julian Brown, still devastated by the untimely death of his wife, travels to England with his high school students for a fun-filled summer of theater. What begins as an innocent journey to Wessex becomes a nightmare as Julian finds himself caught in the middle...

The Hunter: A Middle-Aged Urban Zen Fable tackles the dilemma posed by Carl Jung: Would you rather be whole or good? In this occasionally wicked yet lighthearted urban fable, we follow the forty-something Hunter on his journey to wholeness as he reclaims his lost...

Intending to open her own ashram in Florida, Honey Lisle studies to become a certified yoga instructor at Gujarati Ashram, a secluded spiritual retreat in the Poconos. Here she meets Guruji, head of the ashram, and Dr. Lahiri, her teacher. When Lahiri tells her...

Owen Warren Lee was nicknamed OWL by his law classmates for not only the contraction of his initials, but more for his prodigious memory and intelligence. He had it all. After graduating first in his law class, he achieved his life's ambition of attaining...

From the very first moment that we gaze upon our own face in a mirror, we are mesmerized. At first we don't even recognize that the image peering back at us is our own. Eventually we come to realize that the person in the...

Our culture produces many whose goals are to create new jobs, increased profits and growth that will benefit humanity. Some, like Peter Oliver Sessions, subvert those goals, overlooking moral and ethical truths. His march to success, driven by ambition and misguided religious convictions, turns...

George Sheldon is casually driving to work one day when a strange SUV unexpectedly appears beside him. The devilish-looking driver has no hands on the steering wheel. As George uneasily exits the freeway to escape this dangerous vehicle, the SUV suddenly swerves, causing a...

We hadn t planned that walk. We had never planned anything. It happened and other times it didn t. We had intended just to sit for a while, watch the birds dive or swoop across the surface, but somehow we started to discuss religion...

Come with me into the House of Death. You will have to come eventually, so don't despair that you are accpeting an early entrance. We all must accept the inevitable, so why not complete it now. Remember that entropy rules our lives and we...

If they built a freeway straight to heaven, surely there are those who would still prefer slower routes. After all, some people are in no hurry to meet their Maker. That's definitely the case with Brother Charlie Savoy. No matter that he's a con...

Recruited to replace a renowned psychiatrist who has mysteriously disappeared, Dr. Rachel Miller is plunged into the hectic world of psychiatry at a state-of-the-art clinic specializing in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder. When one of her patients...