Emotional Thrillers

Three Souls Bound by One Purpose Arya is an amateur boxer… but her real fight is with heroin and with herself. Philip is a retired boxer, hiding from a violent past he can’t shake. And Sister Maria, a nun with the Missionaries of Charity, works tirelessly among Kolkata’s poorest… When their paths cross, each is forced to confront the shadows they’ve been running from. For Arya, redemption means fighting—not just with her fists, but with her soul—to save children from the horrors of sex slavery. Together, they learn that even the most fractured souls can find the light.

Her shoulders are small, her troubles many, but when destruction threatens her family, Loraine Pruitt's worn-out spirit must rise to the size of ten tough men. The tragedies that befell Loraine brought her from fun and optimistic to embittered and weary and finally to giving up on life. Her happy home and thriving Wisconsin dairy farm slid into decay, and she struggles to get by with her blind husband, underdeveloped adult son, and her own afflictions. As if not enough misfortune and heartbreak came her way, one fine summer day her son innocently wrongs the state’s richest man, his ...

Desde la muerte de Simon hace casi un año, en Bayview han surgido decenas de aplicaciones para difundir cotilleos, aunque ninguna está a la altura de la suya. Hasta ahora. Verdad o Atrevimiento no es una aplicación, sino un juego. Un juego que desvela tus secretos más oscuros. Si no te atreves, puedes confesar, pero algunas verdades son más difíciles de admitir que otras...¡y solo tienes 24 horas para pensártelo!

"Dialogue and flow of the story are excellent." -- NetGalley Every heart is asked, at some point, to leave something or someone behind while it yearns and aches for a different outcome. Beebe Walker is pulled into a compelling story of lost and found. Inside, she’s haunted by a farewell that never came. Her mother abandoned her and her father without a word when she was sixteen. Beebe is surprised by a visit from her ex-fiancé, Vincent Bostick. He brings shocking news. Reluctantly, Beebe decides to move back home, to face the past and renew a relationship with her father. Time and again,...

As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar's space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. As a junior guard, she's excited to prove herself to her company - and that means sacrificing anything that won't propel her forward. But then a routine drill goes sideways, and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.

Owl has always been her freest self in the mountains, tracking, hiking, and exploring the steep forested acres of her aunt and uncle’s maple sugar farm. They never speak of the childhood tragedy that left her partially deaf and sent her father to jail. All Owl wants is to stay safe at the farm, her favorite place in the world, her refuge from those who would treat her differently. Owl’s sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody—the magnetic, dangerous young man hired to help with the season’s sugaring off.

Here are four psychological thrillers where love and shame collide, creating a warped kind of sexual chemistry. Abduction, paranoia, addiction, and obsession thicken the mix.

Wylie may have escaped the camp in Maine, but she is far from safe. The best way for her to protect herself is to understand her ability - fast. But after spending a lifetime trying to ignore her own feelings, giving in to her ability to read other peoples' emotions is as difficult as it is dangerous. And Wylie isn't the only one at risk. Ever since they returned home, Jasper has been spiraling, wracked with guilt over what happened to Cassie.

At nineteen, Charlotte “Charlie” Monterey leaves her sleepy hometown of Hawthorn Creek, determined to pursue her education and chart a future brimming with possibilities. Her parting from Luke Daniels—her high school sweetheart, the men who promise to marry her. Before they part ways, they make a pack to lose their virginity to each other. High School is over. Charlie leaves for nursing school and Luke departs for New York to law school on a football scholarship. His dream of becoming a lawyer. Apart inevitable cost of chasing their individual dreams. Despite the heartbreak, Charlie ...

Hanna’s world is crumbling. An unimaginable crime has been committed, and everyone’s looking for someone to blame. Her loved ones are under suspicion. Now Hanna must work out who is threatening her family – before it’s too late. No one could have seen this coming.

The definitive conclusion to the Preternatural trilogy! A year ago, Blackheart was finally put to rest, but now finds himself cast out of the afterlife and back to his old ways. Planning a war on God, he resurrects John Smith to assist him in this quest, all while acting as a false prophet and savior to the people of Meadowsville. Follow the final adventures of Alexandra Hughes and the Reed family, as they work together to finally destroy this legendary monster once and for all, or find themselves in hell on earth.God help us...

Evie Childs hoped the all-expense-paid trip to Africa would give her a chance at adventure. Maybe it would even let her forget a past that haunts her and find safety from a husband who abuses her. But when a group of "freedom fighters" kidnaps her safari tour group, intent on holding them for ransom, the adventure turns to nightmare. Now, Evie and the rest of the survivors must travel across miles of the harshest, most dangerous environment on Earth. No food. No water. No communications. And they're being hunted.

Some secrets are meant to be discovered. Yes, I'm odd. I'm pragmatic. I'm a perfectionist and a little neurotic. I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder at the age of eleven, and I can’t remember being any other way. Thankfully, with the assistance of medication and therapy, my life is well under control. Some might even say it’s perfect: a beautiful husband, our sons Trevor and Tristan, a fabulous condo, work I enjoy and great friends. Yet I'm still extremely fragile. It’s the reason I always guard my emotions very carefully. But unfortunately, nothing can help me when, by...

In "Rose of Despair," Rose Whitaker has spent her life haunted by shadows she can't fully remember—footsteps outside her window, strange knocks in the night, and an overwhelming fear that something terrible lurks just beyond the edges of her awareness. When she discovers that her mother’s tragic death might be linked to years of hidden terror, Rose embarks on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront her past, her fears, and a manipulative force that has stalked her family for years. With the support of old friends and newfound allies, Rose unravels a web of deceit, ...

Mateo spent years believing he suffered from a strange wasting sickness, but he's finally learned the much darker truth. Now he will do whatever it takes to save himself, even if it means betraying Lia, the one girl who's ever made him care about something more than his research. It doesn't help that his father kidnapped the last living member of Lia's family, and though it means Mateo will get to see her again, it's only because Lia is already hunting them.

Jade and her friends, Jenny, Mads, and Summer, rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs, and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Jade's sweet 16, when they crash a St. Andrew’s Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Jade as their next target. They picked the wrong girl. Sworn to vengeance, Jade transfers to St. Andrew’s Prep. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one. She'll take their power, their lives, and their control of the prep school's hierarchy.

In the beginning, Isaac West stole to give his younger sister Janelle little things: a new sweater, a scarf, just so she looked less like a charity case whose mother spent money on booze and more like the prep school girls he'd see on his way to school. But when Isaac's petty theft lands him in juvie, he's cut off from helping Janelle. Friendless in a dangerous world of gangs and violent offenders, he must watch his every step.

It's been a year since Luna's mother, the fashion-model wife of a successful film director, was hit and killed by a taxi in New York's East Village. Luna, her father, and her little brother, Tile, are still struggling with grief. When Luna goes to clean out her mother's old studio, she's stunned to find her mom's cell phone there - charged and holding seven unheard messages. As Luna begins to listen to them, she learns more about her mother's life than she ever wanted to know . . .

Stolen Desires: Shattered Trust is a gripping dark romance about two broken people bound by secrets, scarred by betrayal, and consumed by a passion that could destroy them both. Lily thought escaping her past would set her free. Instead, it led her to Jack—a former cop with blood on his hands and a gaze that sees too much. He offers her shelter from the storm, but protection always comes at a price. Jack isn’t a savior. He’s the kind of man women are warned about—dangerous, damaged, and hiding something that could shatter what’s left of Lily’s fragile hope. But even knowing this...

After Zan’s best friend moves to California, she is baffled and crushed when Priya suddenly ghosts. Worse, Priya’s social media has turned into a stream of ungrammatical posts chronicling a sunny, vapid new life that doesn’t sound like her at all. Everyone tells Zan not to be an idiot: Let Priya do her reinvention thing and move on. Then a clue hidden in Priya’s latest selfie introduces a new, deeply disturbing possibility: Maybe Priya isn’t just not answering Zan’s emails. Maybe she can’t.