Fiction - Psychological

SLEEP, introduces a child who is discovered next to her dead mother. It soon becomes clear the child has exceptional intelligence, but she also suffers from somnambulism - sleepwalking.As the child grows, she is seemingly surrounded by tragedy and, at the age of eight,...

Teacher Alistair Veale is just coasting along in his 20 year marriage to Ann. His two sons Tom and Jake are growing up fast and have their own interests, but he still enjoys a close relationship with 13-year-old daughter Jessie, his 'Princess'.When Alistair takes...

Fred Stoker is a very confused man. He is a thinker, a jerk, a crazy person who is trying to organize his life with messy ideas. One day, he meets a lady who brings balance to his world. However, it takes a while for...

1947. Small town, Midwest. Fifteen-year-old Pete's father is the local, well-respected, prosecuting attorney by day and an alcohol induced abusive father by night. The boy has turned elsewhere for adult, male, companionship. He found it in a cabin in the woods in the form...

For generations, the truth has been left to fester while evil flourished within Castle Vaduva's blood-stained stones. But nothing stays hidden forever... Mihail Vaduva didn't know that returning to his ancestral home would throw him into a battleground between the living and the dead....

How far would you go for your best friend.... Abigail and Kessia shared a childhood bond that couldn't be broken. Challenged, yes-but never broken. Born into Hollywood lineage, Kessia understood the risks and pressures of celebrity life and willingly dedicated hers to serving and...

"All Hope Is a Lie."Felix has been terrified of Lyme his entire life.It doesn't matter that he and Sasha have escaped from CO9.It doesn't matter that memory and destiny keep seeming to converge right when he needs them most.Lyme is still unkillable.And now he's...

This is your chance to sit in on an exclusive interview with God. Attend a fantasy church service with a nude protagonist. Listen to the muddled mind of a madman with vengeance in his heart and a butcher's cleaver in his hand. Or maybe...

A Story About Choices. A Story About Change. We all have our own private Nazareth of one kind or another; a time or place in our lives when we find ourselves to be stuck, conditioned to a certain way of thinking, being, believing; painted...

Prix Fixe is a collection of 3 stories of fantasy and suspense by author E.Z. Reier. The future is a bleak place where corporate profits and social compliance take precedence over individuality and artistic expression. Jake will do anything to give his girlfriend the...

This suspenseful, touching, quirky little tale of Christmas is a fast-moving, frequently shocking, account of a children's crisis hospital on one Christmas Eve. This one night of the year has a mysterious power, from millennia of pre-Christian harvest festivals and ancestor worship, when ghosts...

THE SEPARATED WOMAN is an engrossing and challenging read not for the fainthearted. From deep within the nature of the world we live in, Sjogren takes his mystery/thriller into a bare, penetrating exploration by way of a single, thought-defying sentence.The writer (narrator) is a...

Iord is I ored somewhere down the line in steel, in iron. Iord is I spoke, I speak, I am complete. I think as a treat. My spokes have become sharp as I bark for I am nothing but a dog, the husky of...

The love of her life, a beautiful adopted son, a successful career in academia, Dr. Faye Davis appears to have it all. She's finally made her life into what she thinks it should be. But it came with a heavy price, a piece of...

Vic/Tim is book 4 of a 6 part series finds Vickie wanting to live a life of levity after the devastating issues of dealing with Violet. Vickie is content to live a peaceful quiet life and work her marketing job. Destiny though must get...

With the blood of Borges in its wanderers' rivers, is a book with worlds of myth and magical realism hovering. It seeks beginnings, invokes the inner-driven walker, ravenous for words, invokes the collective shadow, the collective lost, the collective seeker, the oceans, the wind...all...

Few of the eccentric inhabitants of her father's Main Line, Philadelphia estate have much time for Fleur Robins, an awkward child with a devotion to her ailing grandfather, a penchant for flapping and whirling, and a preoccupation with God and the void. While her...

Barry Hoffman returns with his fifth book in the critically acclaimed Eyes series. Teenager Renee LeShay has been kidnapped by Norman Flowers, an unhinged victim of homicide detective Lamar Briggs, who thinks he has abducted Briggs's daughter Alexis. Shara Farris, a bounty hunter and...

From Putting Mrs Dawson Back Together: "Yes, go on ... Ann? Are you there? Ann? ... I think you have more to say, Ann.""No ... I ... Just that you are sitting there like a stone and a purple one that is so stuck...

Delaney Griffin welcomed her sister's large family into her small home when they were displaced by Hurricane Sandy. With five noisy kids and an overbearing brother-in-law threatening her sanity, Delaney spends much of her free time cleaning up the wildlife refuge and helping at...

Gillian Hart has big ambitions while working as a reporter for a small circulation paper in Denver, Colorado. When her editor and friend assigns a story about some rich businessman who chucks it all to live in the woods alone outside Durango, she does...

The year is 2163.After the fracturing, there was war. After the war came the all-powerful League, subsuming all interdimensional trade, commerce, and travel under its aegis with the I-Link Network, now a ubiquitous presence in the lives of humans and off-planers. Its paramilitary contingent...

What if Jason Bourne remembered everything right from the very start? What would happen to his therapist and nurse that helped him through his post-trauma amnesia? Would the government that trained him want him and his friends to live now? What would he do...

The FBI Uses Dangerous Bait... Eric I. Daniels, better known as "Eagle," is ready to exact his revenge. Once the powerful chairman of the now-gutted and defunct Foreign Intelligence Agency, he is now in hiding, assembling the pieces of a plan to find Alexander...

A tragicomic story set in a Midwest university town, The College of Corn portrays a community of overseas Chinese students and immigrants, and three fledging young woman scholars -- one from Taiwan, one Mainlander, and one Hong Konger -- experiencing early adulthood, the reality...

NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF 2017 Ray Lopez is on the run with a duffel bag full of cash. Both drug dealers and the police are after him. But Ray is not a criminal. His last brush with the law was over...

In the late nineteenth century, in Washington Square, two children play with a red balloon... and so begins the strange romance between Daniel, beautiful and tiny, and Grace, known as The Fat Princess, an orphaned girl whose enormous girth matches her wealth. Each wishes...

New Found Souls are novels of survival and renewal. They mark turning points in the lives of individuals forced to come to grips with unseemly realities, who must redefine themselves. No one understands the Silent Signals Ross Bellman is sending. His sister, Amanda, responds,...

George Williams returns with a second collection of stories as original and arresting as his first, Gardens of Earthly Delight. From a Texas reservoir a fisherman hauls in a record-breaking bass that transforms his life forever. In Georgia a man is required by federal...

A Love That Was Dangerous To Herself And Others To look at ourselves - divided and taken apart. And then find out how we go together again. In Pola, that journey is a vividly personal exploration into the sacred unity of Art, Mind and...

Bird on the Wing: Travels of the Self contains fifteen stories of exotic characters in exotic situations. They are presented in a style woven from both reality and the surreal. These stories seek to unravel the mystery of human interconnections in the presence of...

A TIME MACHINE COULD TAKE US NO CLOSER! Synopsis of The Mule Shoe by Perry Trouche Give a nearsighted child glasses for the first time and what you'll hear immediately is "I can see the leaves". This sudden clarity strikes the protagonist Conner DuMont...

What do women want? To understand why. And so a rape victim confronts her assailants, asking them, pushing them, to explain why they did what they did. It does not go as expected.A must-read for men and women alike."Edgy, insightful, terrific writing, propelled by...

Is money all it takes to cheat death?One of the greatest leaders of business in the 20th century, a household name around the world, has been cryonically frozen for decades. Now it's time for him to come back to the real world; time for...

Would you help a stranger?It's a normal day. A hot Summer's day. In a cold, airconditioned train. In an almost empty carriage.Ms Jones is irritable and exhausted.After a long day of hospital scans, she just wants a bit of peace and quiet.But the journal...

Amid the rich, luxuriously sexual hotbed of Las Vegas hides secrets, lies, mystery, and murder.Tahlia Johnston is on the run from a horror she barely remembers, and a stalker chasing her in her dreams and in real life. Then, at a gas station in...

The dots on the plains far below were gazelles, zebras, elephants, buffalo and there were probably leopards in the thorn trees, and a lion pride or two. She felt the stirrings of an even deeper passion for Africa and, with it, a longing for...

He walked further and under the trees saying, 'I don't mean to intrude but is anyone there?' By then his heart was pounding. A little further. Then suddenly shock and horror at what the lamp sadly revealed - a nude, bloodied, young woman. What...

Sydney 1986, and Devlin's life is music, madness and a vivid dream of another life. Another place. A place he's seen and can't forget. A place of heat and dust and silence, and endless blue. Time to think. And to kill. And forgive. A...

Some people will do anything for the one they love...When big time Hollywood actor, Jay Daniels, meets small time Aussie author, Ari Travers, at her local writers' group in Australia during a break in the filming of his current movie, he's instantly taken with...

What do you get when you mix a warm tropical island, fifty gorgeously naked men, and one seriously horny woman together?Pure Hell!A reclusive Russian billionaire lives on her tropical playground of debauched and wildly animalistic sex. She's happy where she is, doing what she's...

Amid the rich, luxuriously sexual hotbed of Las Vegas hides secrets, lies, mystery, and murder.Tahlia Johnston is on the run from a horror she barely remembers, and a stalker chasing her in her dreams and in real life. Then, at a gas station in...

Who can say what has brought Jess and Lindy together? maybe it's the beach, the stars and the warm Turkish night air. But they may as well get settled for the night because Jess has a story to tell and Lindy is ready to...

"There are many truths seeking to reveal the 'meaning of life' which, when examined in the cold light of day, lose their essential essence because of the inevitable decay brought about by an insatiable need to rationalise them. The Insidious Sign is the embodiment...

Lara and Luella Jeffreys lead isolated lives until the night they are left alone for the first time, and Luella decides to have some fun. That evening goes horribly wrong.After Luella wakes up in hospital, she's kept prisoner at home with her mother acting...

Frances Andrews is sick of her husband Martin's addiction to pornography, and has lost her trust in him. Martin views porn as a harmless pastime, but when Frances threatens to leave, he is distraught and begs her to go with him for marriage guidance...

Life is never straightforward. Lizzie is fast approaching 50. Her once angst-ridden teenage daughters have flown the nest: Cassie to London and Maisy to Australia. And although Connor, Lizzie's teenage son, is now on his own tormented passage to adulthood, his quest to get...

Is every decision a gamble? James has fallen through life, plotting a course of least resistance, taking each day as it comes and waiting for something to turn up, to give his existence meaning. His journey lacks one vital element; a fellow traveller. Then...

They say romance and horror make strange bedfellows . . . Sometimes it works out the way you intended when Cupid's arrow pierces the heart of the one you most desire and those loving feelings are reciprocated. But what of those times when Love...

An expressionless figure haunts Emily's dreams. Night after night, he pursues her, and night after night, she wakes as he stabs her. When she starts seeing the figure at work and hearing voices, Emily begins to worry that her nightmares are becoming a reality....