Psychological Publishing

Paige always knew something was off about her mom. Now she knows the truth. Her mom wasn’t who she said she was. A truth Paige never wanted to admit, but knew deep in her heart. She knew because she covered her mom’s tracks to stay one step ahead of the authorities. As her truth unravels around her, Paige discovers her mom isn’t the only one who is hiding her true identity. When people from her mother’s past start showing up, Paige must discern who she can trust before it’s too late. Will Paige unveil the secrets before she suffers the same fate as her mother?

When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school - one of the most exclusive in the city. Next, she's going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage 10 years earlier. But nothing goes quite as planned. The school is not very welcoming newcomers, her daughter hasn't made any friends yet and the other mothers are as fiercely competitive as their children.

Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within, battling her own demons. Elise has everything under control, until one afternoon, when she walks into a department store and is forced to make a terrible choice: to save one life, she will have to take another.

The Dolces broke me, but with perseverance and dedication, Royal has begun to heal me. He nourishes my body and soul, and if I let him, he might just save me. But I’m not sure I can let him. After what he did, how can I let myself love again? But how can I help myself? Royal may be a broken man, even a monster, but he didn’t become that way overnight. He didn’t get there alone. I was part of his destruction, just as he was part of mine. And just as he has moved worlds to help me, I must atone for what I’ve done, too.

This book isn’t a self-help manual. It’s a mirror—sharpened into a blade. Being Social Is Making You Dumber is a ruthless dissection of the smiling, nodding, performative version of modern life. Rooted in the cold precision of Machiavellian philosophy, it doesn’t plead for your attention. It challenges your need for it. You’ve been taught that being liked is a virtue. That fitting in is maturity. That playing well with others is wisdom. It’s not. It’s erosion. Every handshake you fake, every opinion you echo, every party you endure in silence builds the invisible prison you ...

Solomon's Dreams returns six months later for another week of dreams, deaths and life-altering events. This time with a partner. Solomon "Solo" Davis and Elizabeth Hyde partner up in an unlikely combo where faith and cynicism mix with playful sarcastic jabs, blatant honesty and a genuine concern for one another. Will their work relationship endure the stress and chaos? Will their unexpected friendship? A revengeful killer is making havoc in Washington D.C. by marking old high school loves as the targets. Is anyone in the killer's past safe? A court case. A tattered marriage. A wounded ...

When death leaves a warning... FBI Special Agent Stella Knox hasn’t finished the paperwork on her last assignment when she walks straight into her next case. A memo written on bright yellow paper looks unassuming at first. What are you afraid of, Paul Slade? It’s a curious question. One the Special Agent in Charge of the Nashville office doesn’t take seriously...at first. One note might have been a joke. Two were a plan. A third leads to a missing deputy. And when a fire inspector mysteriously vanishes, it’s clear someone is deliberately targeting the city’s most courageous city ...

When secrets start slipping, no one is safe — not even from themselves. Amber and Patron’s marriage is on the rocks once again, but this time, jealousy isn’t just Amber’s burden to bear. Patron is finally forced to see that two can play that game… and someone might just play it better. Roman’s house is no longer a sanctuary when an unexpected guest tests his loyalty and his patience. The truth finally explodes, and when Roman calls out Symphony’s lies, Dennis hits the streets with blood in his eyes. Symphony and DeKing are blindsided by life-changing news that threatens to ...

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the incident. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the 21st century.

Carrie wants a normal life. Carrie Lawrence doesn’t need a happily ever after. She’ll just settle for “after.” After a decade of helping her sister hide her victims. After a lifetime of lies. She just wants to be safe, boring, and not trekking through the woods at night with a dead body wrapped in a carpet. Becca wants to get away with murder. Becca Lawrence doesn’t believe in happily ever after because she’s already happy. She’s gotten away with murder for a decade and has blackmailed her sister into helping her hide the evidence - what more could a girl want?

She remembers what she saw—or did she imagine it? When the Meekses come to stay, Marianne hopes the visit will lift the tension in her increasingly lifeless marriage to Charlie. But after a strange turn of events, Marianne finds herself doubting what she saw—and what she didn’t. Addy Meeks's behaviour was odd from the start, and now Marianne’s memories don’t seem to match anyone else’s. Has something terrible happened, or is she losing her grip on reality?

Eve wanted nothing more than to be a mother. She and her husband, Aidan, planned to have a family, but with each devastating miscarriage her hopes dwindled. When she eventually gave birth to her daughter, Kayla, it should have been the happiest time of her life. Instead, it was a waking nightmare for Eve and one she was desperate to escape. Now, Eve has left all that behind. She pretends that she never had a child and keeps her secrets close. But someone knows the truth. They know that Eve told a lie, and the clock is ticking before her shocking decision is revealed.

Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes. Olivia only wants to clear up the misunderstanding. But when she befriends Natalie, secrets come tumbling out that expose the ugly side of Olivia’s beautiful marriage and she realizes there is another young woman caught up in Lucas’s lies.

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 to unravel everything they hold dear. As Emily digs deeper, she uncovers the truth about Mark’s involvement in a money-laundering scheme. With each revelation, she realizes the stakes are higher than she imagined. Her daughter’s safety hangs in the balance as Emily fights to protect her from the ...

The night that throws a wrecking ball into Abby’s life starts out perfectly at first. There’s still a hint of summer sun in the purple-streaked sky. Abby and her best friend, Sienna, look on fondly as their two husbands laugh under the garden gazebo. None of them know it’s the last time they will be together again. What starts out as just a little fun has devastating consequences for the couples. Alone with Sienna’s husband, Greg, Abby finds him unexpectedly charming. Caught up in the moment, she reveals a secret she swore never to tell.

Vancouver Detective Kate Morgan has had bad days before, but getting a message about her long-lost brother hit her hard. She couldn’t trust some anonymous source, yet neither could she let any tip slide. What if it was the one tidbit that gave her information as to what happened to Timothy, now missing some twenty-six years and counting? She would do anything for those answers.

All bets are off when a madman calls the shots. After Special Agent Stella Knox’s friend and FBI tech ace Mac drops a bombshell regarding the death of Stella’s father, she can’t wait to follow up on the lead. But that’s put on the backburner when six people are abducted from a dinner party—the door open, the table laid, and the meal started. Even more disturbing is that a two-year-old is among the missing. With no sign of a struggle and the only fingerprints belonging to the guests, there’s little to go on. Soon, a body is found in a drainage ditch on the edge of town, shot in ...

When Paige Nichols meets her husband’s glamorous new colleague at a faculty mixer, she instantly knows they’re having an affair. It’s the way he looks at her, like she’s the only woman in the world. Aaron used to look at her like that, too. And with her beautiful, knowing smile, Cara Morton seems to enjoy flaunting their romance right under her nose.

Meet Riel Brava. Attractive. Razor-sharp. Ambitious. And something much more. Riel, raised in Santa Barbara, California, has been transplanted to Nova Scotia where he is CEO of the Canadian Cannabis Corporation. It’s business as usual until Riel finds his world hanging by a thread. Actually, several threads. It doesn’t take the police long to determine all is not as it appears—and that includes Riel himself. Pulled into a world not of his making, Riel resists the hunt to catch a killer. Resistance is futile.

Necessary Cruelty is not a self-help book. It’s a manual for those who have learned, often too late, that kindness isn’t always a virtue—it’s a vulnerability. Drawing from Machiavellian principles, this book strips away the illusion that patience, tolerance, and emotional generosity are always the right answers. They’re not. Sometimes they’re the reason people keep crossing your boundaries. Told in a dry, unsentimental voice, Necessary Cruelty offers 30 relentless chapters on what happens when kindness fails—and what to do about it. It isn’t about revenge. It’s not about ...