Fiction - Psychological

Behind the Mirror is therapeutic fiction at its core-where emotional healing collides with high-functioning burnout, generational trauma, and a fourth marriage on the brink.Julie Sloan has spent her life performing: a polished professional, a chronic overfunctioner, and a master of pretending things were fine....

In a riveting psychological thriller, Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark takes you deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, is the daughter...

Master storyteller Matthew McConkey returns with a second collection of short fiction. The fifteen stories in Everything Fades in Time will take you on a journey through the mysterious and unpredictable facets of human existence. A man who recounts a deadly deed on "Halloween...

The Sojourn by Ralph M. Akale is a powerful and evocative tale that delves deep into the human experience. When the protagonist receives news of a friend's death, they are thrust into a whirlwind of emotions that reverberate throughout the story. Through a series...

Terry Martin's life was in disarray and getting worse. A sufferer of seizures, he was almost friendless and his only support was a government worker. But it was worse. He was also a heavy bedwetter and a secret adult baby. He had no support...

The twisted psychological thriller about a T.V. game show that manipulates its contestants into ending their own lives for charity. NORA FICTUS is a show runner for Mendax Productions, the most powerful television network in the world. Having grown up fascinated by Death and...

Garryowen is a novel that unfolds against the scenic backdrop of the Irish coast, exploring the intricacies of life in a rural, isolated setting. It delves into the dynamics of human relationships, particularly focusing on the companionship between an invalid girl and her caretaker....

"Thankful Rest" by Annie S. Swan is a novel that explores the emotional complexities of responsibility, family bonds, and personal growth. The story revolves around two siblings who must adjust to a new family dynamic when they are unexpectedly thrust into the role of...

Full text.Henry James, the master of psychological literature, is at it again disturbing readers with the story of a man who feels he might be missing something important in life -- a man who also has a secret, the unstated in his life now...

Out of the Looking Glass...Mirror Reversal is a unique contribution to popular psychology and science fiction by platforming a torrid tale of one woman's descent into the depths of human misery on a solid understanding of basic principles of social science. Fast moving, sometimes...

When Color Fades is a stirring look into the anatomy of memory loss and the frailty of misconstrued relationships. It untangles hard truth with gentle irony as it explores a mother and daughter's turbulent pursuit of closure. When Annabelle's husband dies unexpectedly, she tears...

"The hero of the story is called Samsa which sounds like a cryptogram for Kafka. Five letters in each word. The S in the word Samsa has the same position as the K in the word Kafka. The A ... " "It is not...

"Self-control" by Mary Brunton is a compelling 19th-century epistolary novel exploring virtue and self-denial. Set against a Scottish backdrop, the story delves into the complex moral dilemmas faced by its protagonist. This meticulously prepared print edition allows readers to immerse themselves in a classic...

"Clara Vaughan, Volume II" by R. D. Blackmore delves into a gripping tale of murder, revenge, and psychological suspense. As a classic of gothic fiction, this novel explores the intricate emotions and dark secrets surrounding a family touched by tragedy. The story centers on...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Mathilda" delves into the dark heart of family secrets and psychological torment. Set against the backdrop of the seventeenth century, this work of gothic and literary fiction explores forbidden love and its devastating consequences. A haunting tale of incest and its...

Hugh Walpole's "The Prelude to Adventure" explores the complex world of college life, friendship, and burgeoning relationships against the backdrop of university. This meticulously prepared print edition invites readers to delve into the psychological landscape of student experience. Walpole crafts a compelling narrative centered...

Experience Dostoevsky's groundbreaking exploration of alienation and the human condition in "Notes from the Underground." This meticulously prepared print edition allows you to delve into the mind of the unnamed narrator, a former official grappling with existential questions and rebelling against societal norms. A...

Author: Kristina MontesanoISBN-10: 0983741182ISBN-13: 9780983741183Publisher: Full Court PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2011Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

From the highly praised author of Spilling Clarence, a luminous novel about the joy of family and the perils of loving. The Woodrow family is going to the circus to celebrate Greta's seventh birthday. When five-year-old brother James eagerly volunteers to join the magic...

Gilver Memmer is running short of time. He is an enormously gifted painter, staggeringly good-looking, and profoundly self-involved, a cross between every woman's dream and every woman's worst nightmare. Great though his creative gifts may be, they cannot save him from dissolution. No longer...

The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts--introduced in the "utterly compelling" (Jeffery Deaver) atmospheric thriller The Lost Ones--finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the...

Three years after tragedy shattered his family, tech visionary Jacob Hastings re-emerges with a creation meant to change the world. The Portal-an immersive neural system that allows users to step inside their own memories-promises connection, healing, and the chance to relive the moments that...

Haunted by thoughts of "if only" and "what if," Dante replays Lyra's disappearance repeatedly in his mind until he is admitted to the state hospital. If only Dante had proposed over dinner. If only he had chosen a different hiking trail. "If only" thoughts...

On Christmas Day, Tom Briggs drives north with nothing but a backpack, a spring onion, and the ache of a life that has fallen apart. His destination: Scafell Pike. His hope: that the climb will quiet the noise in his head. His fear: that...

A RAW, SOUL-SPLITTING NOVEL ABOUT GRIEF, AMBITION, AND THE BRUTAL COST OF BEING HEARD.Lloyd Brannon, Aberdeen's legendary frontman, is dead. The industry mourns, but the machine keeps moving.Kline Thomas sings grunge covers in Alabama dive bars, until one night he sings something else, and...

This collection features tormented individuals driven by unnatural visions; graveyards haunted by children; and menacing landscapes with destructive intentions. A strange inheritance conceals family mysteries, and a madman is visited by puppets. From the supernatural to the psychological, the book also includes off-beat stories...

When Morgan and Arthur trade city life for a small Illinois farm, their dream quickly unravels among hostile neighbors and a depleted land. The discovery of a corpse in their woods strains their marriage to a breaking point. As Morgan retreats to her old...

"Feathers of Love: A Journey of Signs, Loss, and the World Beyond" Some journeys take us across the world; others guide us within. After the loss of her beloved mother, Linda Ghalieh found herself drawn to distant lands, each destination offering not just beauty...

A car crash in suburban Melbourne.One woman seriously injured.One man dead.But was it really an accident?Simone Henshaw is a reformed bad girl with a questionable past. Everyone knows the suburban soccer mum is a loose cannon, so when a suspicious car crash leaves her...

Don't wake up, the disembodied voice whispers to Lyla in the depths of her increasingly terrifying nightmares. She can't seem to escape the shadowed entity haunting her within. Each night his hold on her grows stronger as Lyla grows weaker, slowly losing her grip...

Three women. Three generations. One haunting legacy.When schoolteacher Rachael discovers her late grandmother's journals, she uncovers more than dusty memories. Within the yellowed pages lies a chilling family history-one of love, betrayal, and long-buried secrets. As Rachael struggles to navigate an increasingly dangerous marriage...

A Murderer on the Loose.A Detective Haunted by the Past.A Race Against Time.DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective for the Lancashire Constabulary in North West England. He's haunted by events of the past and hell bent on redemption, if he can stay healthy...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's passionate and philosophical final novel, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. Set in 19th-century Russia, when a landowner is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed forever: the sentimental Dmitri, whose contentious relationship with his father...

A novel about the dangerous power of storytelling, set in motion by a chance encounter On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes engrossed in the stories of the strangers who share her compartment. One has adapted the harrowing childhood experience...

It's his story. But it's her life. When twenty-three-year-old Hope Jenkins arrives at the isolated, otherworldly Shadowlands estate, she's certain her life is finally about to begin. Armed with nothing but her ambition and a job assisting the up-and-coming literary star Ambrose "Rosie" Glencourt,...

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations--a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edge Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan--exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning...

A troubled woman seeking a fresh start in the Scottish countryside believes her neighbour may be behind the strange disturbances in her home in this psychological horror debut for fans of The Lamb and We Used to Live Here. "The symmetry should have tipped...

A haunting tale of love, madness, and the thin line between the real and the unreal.Ever since childhood, Rupert Lux has feared the oceanic god that lives inside his right eye. Doctors call it hysteria. Rupert calls it possession.Haunted by guilt and unable to...

The Feral Butterfly is a haunting and deeply human debut novel that explores identity, freedom, and the search for meaning in a world that often feels indifferent. Through vivid characters and emotional storytelling, Sheila Ray Montgomery examines the delicate balance between vulnerability and resilience,...

A twisty, jaw-dropping psychological thriller that unravels a mother's worst nightmare--that her child is capable of terrible violence--when her teenage son becomes a suspect in the murder of two classmates, from the author of The Deepest Lake. Over one terrible weekend, two teenage girls...

From the award-winning author of the national bestseller Idaho comes a stunning collection of stories that explore how unexpected intuitions forever alter the lives of ordinary people. Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a...

WHAT IF THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN SAVE YOU WAITS IN YOUR DREAMS?Zane is slipping. The job he chased now feels empty. The love he tried to fix feels far away. Each night he stands on the same silver shore with a woman he...

What if the demons we fight in our heads aren't just in our heads?When homeless veteran Marcus "Tank" Rodriguez starts seeing shadows that move wrong and feeling hunted by something that shouldn't exist, he assumes he's finally lost his mind to PTSD. But when...

The lush story of one woman's erotic odyssey, by a writer of "extraordinary" talent (Maureen Freely, The Observer). Olivia offers herself to her younger lover Rosairo completely, but he keeps her at a distance, maintaining his relationship with Jess; a university student with whom...

You knew her. You loved her. Then she vanished...When celebrated singer Calista plunges to her death during a concert in Rio, her former girlfriend Stevie is watching, along with the rest of the world. But while millions of fans mourn, Stevie can't shake the...

Merlot Glasswing survives a traumatic incident and awakens on a riverbank. While he learns to cope with his losses, a strange phenomenon occurs; he can create insects from his imagination. These creatures arise against his own will.One night, a cascade of fireflies that he...

When Ashley and Jim Carlin come home from vacation, they're greeted with disturbing news: someone entered their house while they were away. Even more unsettling, the man matches the description of a murderer who vanished from that very home two decades ago.Already struggling with...

A Family. A Lie. A Line You Can't Uncross.Emily Johnson's world shatters when she discovers her husband, Mark, harbors dark secrets. Beneath their idyllic suburban facade lies a tangled web of deceit. Mark, a respected financial advisor, is ensnared in criminal activities that threaten...

In a split-second decision that will shatter his life, insurance salesman Jack Spinks stops to help a young woman walking alone down a back country road. After getting into his truck the mysterious young woman grabs the steering wheel and forces the truck off...

Winner of the Prix Goncourt A powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud's tense and haunting novel follows one woman's...