Psychological Publishing

After years of learning how to manage her bipolar disorder, Emily Firestone finally has it under control. Even better, her life is coming together: she's got a great job, her own place, and a boyfriend, Paolo, who adores her. So when Paolo suggests a weekend sailing trip, Emily agrees - wine, water, and the man she loves? What could be better? But when Emily wakes the morning after they set sail, the boat is still adrift ... and Paolo is gone.

Chelsea Rivers is a troubled teen who is abused by her father and ridiculed by her classmates. She is put in therapy as a means to sooth the conscience of her parents, but soon discovers that her therapist is not your average therapist. Dr. Bennett has an alternative method in her approach to therapy and soon has Chelsea plotting the murder of the "cool kids" who torment her as a cathartic exercise. Chelsea begins secretly following her tormentors to learn their habits and schedules. While doing so, she happens upon one of them murdering their family dog and an unlikely friendship ensues ...

Raine sometimes complains that nothing exciting is ever gonna happen in Grace, Alabama, again. Daddy told her careful what you wish for. Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer goes missing. Grace is already simmering, and with this new tragedy the police have their hands full keeping the peace.

From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swift, and Therese begins to look at her privileged and insular world with new eyes. In the flat below Therese, something else is brewing. Her neighbour Claire believes she's discovered the secret to living with freedom and authenticity, freeing herself from the mundanity of domesticity.

Discover the Truth Behind the Shadows in Murder at the Willows In the high-stakes world of political ambition and corruption, Chief Detective Hector Ramirez returns in Murder at the Willows, the third thrilling installment of the Hector Ramirez series. When a high-profile political campaign is rocked by the mysterious death of its key communications director, Rachel Santos, Hector and his dedicated partner, Detective Ava Nguyen, find themselves entangled in a web of lies, deceit, and treachery. Their investigation takes them to The Willows, a secluded upscale resort with a dark reputation. ...

Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. After-school job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick. Why? Because she might be one herself.

A devoted wife and mother faces the unimaginable as her life crumbles. Crystal Rigler seems to have a perfect marriage. Derek, her handsome and charismatic husband, and their adult daughter, Cordelia, are her whole world. In addition to her already busy life, Crystal supports the volunteer organization she and Derek started: STOP (Stop Transplants of Organs from Prisoners). STOP aims to end a new government policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. They learn that these organs are not distributed by the national transplant list, established to allocate organs fairly.

There are so many hidden factors that influence the decisions your customers make, and it has little to do with the facts of your brand or the products you sell. They know they like a product or brand. They know that one service feels like a better value than another. They know that what you sell isn't a good fit, and they should head over to your competitor. But they usually don't know why they feel that way. They feel it, and that's good enough. This is where most companies miss the mark, deciding to throw all of their time, energy, and focus into conversion rate optimization to boost ...

San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: 32 kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city’s own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse, municipal forces embark on a hunt to find the kids before the city falls into irreparable chaos.

When a teenage girl goes missing in Arizona, retired NYPD officer Jamie Butler is frantic to find her. Haunted by the brutal murder of her own daughter, Jamie is convinced that this girl has been abducted in the same way. There are inexplicable similarities to her own daughter’s abduction. Connections that seem impossible. Because her daughter’s killer is long-dead. But as her search for the missing teen intensifies, new evidence comes to light. Evidence that implicates Jamie herself.

WELCOME TO THE CULT Joaquín Colt is young and happy to appear just like millions of other Londoners who inhabit 21st-century mania. Except appearances are only surface-deep. Submerged in a hectic lifestyle that suits him, one in which he is a successful photographer working for trendy travel publications (a golden ticket that opens many doors, especially women’s), no amount of distractions or shallowness can hide a much deeper and disturbing truth – his belief that he's cursed. Ordered by his agent to take a short break before his next big assignment, Joaquín drives to the lakes and ...

In the shadowy realms of high society and hidden agendas, Devan James Sprawling, a former CIA analyst turned private investigator, is about to embark on a journey that will test the limits of his intellect and determination. "Cold Coffee and Cocaine" delves into the depths of a notorious cold case, a puzzle that once captivated the nation, only to fade into obscurity over two decades.

In the vast Nevada desert, some secrets refuse to stay buried. When a hiker stumbles upon human remains in the remote Black Rock Desert, Chief Detective Hector Ramirez is pulled into a twenty-five-year-old murder case that will shake the foundations of Reno's power structure. As his team uncovers evidence linking the death to a controversial casino development project, they realize they're dealing with more than just a cold case—they're confronting a decades-long web of corruption that reaches into the heart of law enforcement itself. With mounting pressure from influential figures ...

The War is over, Britain has fallen. It wasn't necessarily that Britain had lost the Second World War. In fact, the Citizen Survivors would disagree whether they had simply bowed out, if it was still raging on somewhere else, or whether the whole thing was simply an unfortunate misunderstanding that they were better off having no part of. Citizen Survivors: The Red Book is a nightmarish black comedy, retelling history's most famous 'what if?’ - Not only what if Britain lost World War Two, but what would that mean for those who survived? The Red Book is a dystopian anthology containing ...

Catherine, a successful barrister, vanishes from a train station on the eve of her anniversary. Is it because she saw a figure—someone she believed long dead? Or was it a shadow cast by her troubled, fractured mind? The answer lies buried in the past. It lies in the events of the hot, seismic summer of 1989, at Vanes—a mysterious West Country manor house—where a young girl, Jane Lestrange, arrives to stay with the gilded, grand Hunter family, and where a devastating tragedy will unfold.

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s startling book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, “are melted into air, into thin air.” When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else.

For Piper Jackson, she once had it all. A charming husband, two beautiful children, and a happy life. But the life she deemed as perfect was all yanked from her the day her husband died. Forced to move back to her small hometown, Piper must somehow start over and find solace in the wreckage of her life. Charles Brewer appears to be a friendly neighborhood handyman, deacon, and faithful pillar of the community. But underneath his kind smile, there is a dark energy lurking.

Owen Hall drives into a petrol station to let his passenger use the facilities. She never comes back - and what's more, it seems she never even made it inside. When Owen raises a fuss, the police are called - and soon identify Owen himself as a possible culprit, not least because they already have him in the frame for another more sinister crime. Owen's always been a little different, and before long others in the community are baying for his blood. But this is a case where nothing is as it seems - least of all Owen Hall....

Boston real estate agent William Collins knows that his habits are slipping out of control. Due to obsessive-compulsive daily cleaning binges and a penchant for nightly online cruising for hookups, he finds his sales figures slipping despite a booming market. There’s also his ongoing struggle to collect the rent from his passive-aggressive tenant and his worries about his best friend, Edward, whom he’s certainly not in love with. Just as he decides to do something about his life, he meets Charlotte and Samuel, wealthy suburbanites looking for the perfect city apartment.

Each girl survived an unthinkable horror. Now someone wants them dead.... They were the victims of separate massacres. Grouped together by the press and dubbed the 'Final Girls', they are treated like something fresh out of a slasher movie. When something terrible happens to Lisa, put-together Quincy and volatile Sam finally meet. Each one influences the other. Each one has dark secrets. And after the bloodstained fingers of the past reach into the present, each one will never be the same.