Fiction - Psychological

Clara Crowe was nineteen years old when she disappeared from Bellwether, Ohio. The town moved on. The Church moved on. Even her father - a retired detective with every skill needed to find her - moved on.He shouldn't have.For ten years Elias Crowe kept...

A collection of books and stories of returning to infancy once again.Contains: Retreat to RebirthNever Grew UpBecoming SmallGrowing Up as A BabyWho Makes The RulesAuthor: Madeline Wood,Rosalie BentISBN-13: 9798195896874Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2026Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

I thought our marriage was a fortress. I didn't know I was just living inside his perfectly curated crime scene.Sutton Walsh has the kind of life people envy. At twenty-seven, she is an ambitious marketing director deeply, unapologetically in love with her husband, Corbin...

A road appears in the silence of a meditation room. Not a vision. Not a metaphor. A presence.From that moment, the narrator is drawn into a journey that crosses deserts, rivers, motels of unfinished stories, and cities made of mirrors - a journey guided...

Puccini's La Bohème, retold as a novel. Paris, the 1830s: a poet, a painter, a philosopher, and a musician share a freezing garret and almost no money - until a seamstress with a cough and a cold hand knocks on the door for a...

THE MONEY MACHINEA devastating portrait of exploitation in the digital age.Maria is twenty-two, broke, and drowning. When she sees an ad promising $200-500/day working from home, she thinks she's found a way out. What she finds instead is a trap.Stream Soft is a cam...

A man tells of losing his way in the mountains and entering the underground country of the kappa, where a strange civilization reflects human society back in distorted form. Around this satirical vision of art, family, industry, religion, madness, and death, Ryunosuke Akutagawa gathers...

Victor Frankenstein did not fail. He succeeded too completely.In this darker reimagining of Mary Shelley's classic, Victor does not flee from his creation. Instead, he embraces it. What begins as a single act of defiance against death grows into something far greater: the rise...

What if Victor Frankenstein did not flee from the being he created?In this redemptive reimagining of Mary Shelley's classic, Victor stays. He chooses to face his creation and accepts the responsibility that follows. What begins as a single act of creation becomes an ongoing...

The Sexy Side of InsanityWhat is the difference between rescue and obsession? Between love and possession?Downtown Vernon. A man searching the streets for a woman he's never met. A homeless woman existing somewhere between everywhere and nowhere. When he finally finds her, he offers...

Elanda, long torn asunder by regional conflicts, rivalries between peoples, and religious turmoil, has united under an enigmatic king, promising an end to its seemingly endless cycle of rebirth and decay. Hope lasted for but a moment as a devouring army of cultists, magicians,...

He made me doubt my own mind. Then a stranger showed up to help me burn his world to the ground. As a fierce investigative journalist in Berlin, Hadley Carter makes a living ruining corrupt men. She is armored, independent, and absolutely terrified of...

A digital copy of your body already exists. It knows your medical history.It predicts your illnesses.It calculates your future. When David Moore discovers that his digital twin has predicted a fatal condition years before any symptoms appear, he is forced to confront a question...

On the night Blackwood Psychiatric Facility burned, seven patients died behind locked doors. One nurse survived. And one girl - the witness who saw too much - disappeared.Lilah Caldwell was twenty-three when she ran through the flames. A nurse. A daughter. The last person...

Chapter 1: The Glance That Lit the FireA Stranger in the LibraryArjun's life was comfortably ordinary until he noticed Maya sitting beneath a rain-streaked window in the university library. She looked up for only a second, but that second planted a seed. By evening,...

She built a perfect life for the world to admire. Then reality took it away.Natalia Vermeer-Kade is the kind of woman people envy, admire, and argue about. To her millions of followers, she is the face of tradition done beautifully: a devoted wife, a...

After losing his job and his girlfriend, Elijah is dragged into a secret mission to Iran, where he discovers that the child he has been sent to stop is not a monster, but a boy shaped by grief, propaganda, and violence. Along the way,...

The blackmail is over. The real audit has begun. Nadia Cross is no longer Lachlan Pierce's captive. She is his Shadow Partner. The forged signature that once gave him power over her is gone, burned to ash along with the old rules between them....

Time does not stop when a life begins to unravel.It keeps moving grain by grain until the truth can no longer be avoided.At a remote wellness center in the Tennessee hills, three men arrive at the edge of the lives they once trusted. A...

Darkness wears many faces.Sometimes it appears as a ghost story, a nightmare, or a whisper from beyond the grave. Sometimes it hides within families, relationships, memories, and the wounds we carry through life.In this collection of horror and dark fiction, Ella Low explores the...

Set between Tokyo Bay and Canary Wharf in London, Canary Wharf Kiss: The Whispering Wind explores human connection in an age shaped by energy transition, global capital, and distance.This is not simply a story about technology or infrastructure. It is a literary exploration of...

20 years after leaving Balliol college, now married with 2 children, he receives a letter from a son he didn't know he had. There follows demands to betray his country by leaking defence secrets. The effect on himself ans his family are calamitous, and...

The American Dream is a novel about the quiet exhaustion of modern life. A man wakes before the alarm because his body has learned not to trust the silence. He checks the account balance. He manages the commute. He feeds the dog, forgets the...

A blank map. A pencil that won't hold its marks. And a child waiting in the salt.The archivist has spent twenty-three years documenting what remains of places after they have stopped being places. When the Erasure-a phenomenon that dissolves cities, languages, and memories-ceases reporting...

The Ecstasy of ManWhat if the very thing that broke you is the doorway to something sacred?The Ecstasy of Man is not a comfortable read-and it isn't meant to be. It is a journey into the raw, unfiltered depths of the human soul, where...

A compelling and wide-ranging collection of short stories exploring memory, identity, love and loss.From quiet moments of everyday life to dark, unsettling encounters, these stories trace the fragile threads that connect us-across families, relationships and the passing of time. A chance meeting on a...

"The Scarlet Letter" is a masterpiece of American fiction set in the strict Puritan society of 17th-century Boston. The narrative centers on Hester Prynne, a woman condemned to wear a prominent scarlet letter "A" as a permanent symbol of her adultery and shame. As...

What if the life you were meant to live was one floor above the one you settled for?At Le Cinquième Séjour - a discreet Alpine retreat above Geneva - couples arrive to repair relationships that have quietly lost their heat. Run by the mysterious...

Some people survive the past. Others bring it home with them.Three years after losing the boy he loved to a brutal conversion therapy camp in rural Texas, Lucas Thorn arrives at Purdue University desperate for one thing: a fresh start.No questions.No memories.No Leo.Then Cooper...

Three days into a luxury Atlantic voyage, the passengers begin to realise they are not simply at sea. They are trapped.Atlantic Lockdown: The Departure is the first book in a tense three-part thriller set aboard a vast cruise ship crossing the Atlantic. What begins...

A gripping psychological thriller about obsession, control, and a mind unraveling. Architect Ahmad Lennox becomes the target of a woman whose fixation blurs the line between love and danger. As memories distort, shadows follow, and a forgotten name-Katrina Hayes-resurfaces, Ahmad realizes someone is rewriting...

Welcome to a collection of horror stories, throughout which disaster is painted in reds and blacks. Blood and sex mingle to birth some new tormented perversions. Within these pages Hell takes shape in many different forms. The men and women within the pages shall...

She knows your habits. She shares your taste. She is stealing your chair. Eva Vogl is the untouchable star of Munich's most elite advertising agency. Her life is a masterpiece of curated perfection: a high-powered career, a designer apartment, and a marriage to a...

Told from a raw and unfiltered perspective. Poppy Masters didn't expect her life to change like this.She didn't expect Marcus.With him, nothing is halfway. Every touch is intentional. Every word lingers. What they share isn't just desire - it's control, trust, and something far...

What if your reasons weren't yours?In The Confabulators, Dr. Joy Vale-architect of the groundbreaking Vale Paradigm-discovers the unthinkable: her own life has been edited. From jam jars switched mid-taste test to a keynote speech she doesn't remember delivering, Joy unravels a decade-long experiment conducted...

What happens in the quiet spaces of a long-term relationship?Strange Things Married People Do is a contemporary literary fiction collection exploring marriage, intimacy, commitment, desire, and the hidden tensions that shape modern relationships.Through sixteen psychological short stories, Alice Hlídková examines the rituals, contradictions, and...

A mother and her daughter find themselves trapped between railway tracks as two trains rush past in opposite directions, horns blaring through the night. She cannot panic. She cannot panic. She has to calm herself, reassure her little one, and move through noise, pressure,...

A woman begins to notice what her perfect world has been covering. In a city where nothing goes wrong, Mara counsels couples through amicable separations and widows through measured grief. Her clients' feelings arrive correctly calibrated; her sessions close on time; her notes fit...

She volunteered to forget him. She didn't expect to find out why.Chloe Vasquez is a memory researcher who wakes up inside a study she agreed to - but can no longer fully remember agreeing to. The procedure was supposed to be clean: a bilateral...

Sheriff Carpenter is a pillar of his small community: he upholds the law not only with passion but also compassion. But when one case hits too close to home, the sheriff finds himself going down a rabbit hole: and spiraling out of control in...

What happens when the person you love does not leave all at once-but slowly, quietly, in ways you do not understand until it is too late?We Said We'd Talk Later is a deeply emotional literary fiction novel about love, silence, heartbreak, and the painful...

He said he didn't kill her. But he's lying about something.How do you love a man you can't trust - when trusting him might be the last thing you do?Elena Cross has been running her whole life. From a past she didn't choose. From...

For MA, survival is a manual process.At 07:00, the weight of the world isn't a metaphor; it's a physical law that pins her to the mattress. A hospice nurse by trade, MA is an expert at the "Performance"-the precise configuration of a smile, the...

The Robot BoyIn a house ruled by fear, a lonely boy builds a robot to survive.James learns early that metal doesn't cry, doesn't flinch, and doesn't break the way people do. While violence echoes through the walls, he escapes to a concrete culvert by...

When naïve but sharp-tongued Nwa-amulu-na-mma, known as Nwamma, becomes pregnant by Richard, a wealthy Lagos property developer and former banker, she is cast out of her village and forced to seek refuge in an unfamiliar city.Thrown into Richard's opulent Lagos world, Nwamma must navigate...

Frankie DeMarco is a ghost haunting a dead town. A former paramedic who let an eighteen-year-old girl die on his watch, Frankie, now works the overnight shift at the Silver Moon Diner in Millhaven, New York, a place that has been slowly rotting since...

"From Small Morals to Life Lessons", is not a conventional storybook. It is an emotional mirror. The plot revolves around Edgar, a humanitarian missionary who, after years of absence, returns to his brother's home and meets Marisol, his ten-year-old niece. While the girl's parents...

The House is starving, and Ria Vance is the meal it can't digest.Deep within the subterranean cathedral known as the House, the floors are turning to liquid. The Great Heart-Orb, the source of life for every resident, is stuttering. To the clinical High Keeper...

Two couples. One summit. Four up, three down...It's Halloween and two independent couples head to the Lake District for the ultimate mountain ridge walk. Adrenaline-charged and trauma-laden, they prepare to scale Blencathra's infamous Sharp Edge.Monika and Tabatha are unacquainted, yet both women harbour the...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Victory: An Island Tale pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Joseph Conrad's "Victory: An Island Tale" plunges into a world of moral isolation on a remote tropical island,...