Psychological Twists

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, 11 years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find....

How do you stop a serial killer who can escape from any prison? On December 11, fifteen-year-old Helen Hinton is brutally murdered in an abandoned house. Her killer, Edward Phillips, is caught and sentenced to death. Helen's blood was on Edward's clothes and shoes, the murder weapon has his fingerprints on it. Edward claims he's innocent. He's telling the truth. Two months after Edward Phillips is transferred to death row, a murder similar to Helen's occurs in another city. The victim is eighteen-year-old Laura Sumner. On an October morning, Mark Hinton, Helen's father, visits Edward in ...

Some secrets refuse to stay buried. Lisa Andrews thought she'd left the past behind. Four years ago, something terrible happened in an abandoned warehouse—something she and her friends swore never to speak of again. Now she's a psychology student with a promising future. Now she's finally building the life she always wanted. And now her friends are dying. One by one, the people who were there that night are meeting violent ends in what look like tragic accidents. Each death brings back memories Lisa has spent years trying to forget, and she can't shake the feeling that someone knows their...

In the pristine facade of her perfect marriage, Nina’s life is beginning to crack. When she discovers a series of disturbing videos on her husband David’s computer—videos of her being watched as she sleeps—Nina is thrust into a nightmare she can’t explain. The footage is invasive, but it’s the shadowy figure in the doorway that sends chills down her spine. As she digs deeper, Nina begins to uncover a tangled web of lies, control, and surveillance, but the more she learns, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her husband—and herself. At the same time, ...

What happens when suburban secrets collide with deadly revenge? Ten women. One night. A pleasure party that goes terribly wrong when a gun-wielding guest turns their sexy soirée into a hostage situation. Behind their perfect facades, each woman harbors a dark secret: • Bianca's forbidden desire could destroy her family • Kristin found love in the worst possible place • Veronica's affair with a married man made her a target • Tina must choose between her perfect life and her young female lover • Maya won't settle for being just a side piece • Brooke's taste for pain leaves more ...

A city built on secrets. Vanished names scattered like whispers in the dark. Power hides behind glass, and shadows hold every answer. Investigative journalist Reeva Maddox tracks a trail of disappearances the police can’t—or won’t—explain. Anonymous threats arrive like clockwork, pulling her closer to the snake pit of urban corruption. Every step is a high-wire act, with eyes watching from the depths. The city’s elite play their games; Reeva just raised the stakes. As the truth unravels, the lines between hunter and hunted blur. Her past breaks through the cracks, twisting the ...

Claudia Shephard’s husband died in a fire. Everyone says it was tragic. Accidental. She doesn't remember much—just smoke, panic, the way her lungs burned as she ran. But three weeks after the funeral, a manuscript arrives on her doorstep. A book she didn’t write. A book that describes, in disturbingly intimate detail, her husband’s affair… and the precise steps she took to murder him. It’s written in her voice. With her quirks. Her phrases. Her secrets. And page by page, Claudia feels her grip on reality begin to unravel. As whispers swirl through their coastal town and friends ...

When Loren meets Jack, she’s sure he’s the man she’s been waiting for - a perfect husband and father for her young daughter. Shortly after their wedding, their plans to start a life together are put on hold when the couple receives word that Jack’s father has died. In an effort to appease her new husband, Loren invites her mother-in-law, Coralee, to stay with them while she grieves. When strange things begin to occur just after her arrival, Loren questions how much she knows about the woman she invited into her home.

A killer from his past threatens his future. Will a decade-long chase end in justice or disaster? Special Agent Aidan O’Reilly is haunted by the one that got away. And even after another year of silence, he still can’t shake his failure to nail the sociopathic madman responsible for over fifty shocking murders. But his guilt becomes a shot at redemption when the murderer returns, naming the detective in a personal note pinned to a fresh kill. With meticulously clean crime scenes and a nosy reporter on the loose, O’Reilly and his new partner scramble to uncover the next target’s ...

The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to hope. She wants them to die. Laura hasn’t had it easy: she’s survived sickness and a difficult marriage only to find herself heading for forty, unsettled and angry. She doesn’t love talking to people worse off than she is. She craves it. But now someone’s on to her—Ryan, whose world falls apart when his pregnant wife ends her life, hand in hand with a stranger. Who was this man, and why did they choose to die together?

Lila Richardson’s ruthless ambition has propelled her to the pinnacle of power at CR Enterprises, a business empire she wrested from her husband, Cartier, through calculated betrayal and deception. Posing as a victim of Cartier’s alleged crimes, Lila orchestrated a masterful scheme, framing him for murder and corporate corruption while eliminating anyone who threatened her rise. To the outside world, she is a symbol of resilience and leadership, but behind closed doors, she is the mastermind of a dark web of lies and manipulation. Serenity Clayborn, once loyal to both Lila and Cartier, ...

Sarah Myers has a great job! A governess for a rich wealthy Bay Area family comes with its added benefits. A car, a home in a trendy San Francisco neighborhood. Life is divine --until it truly isn’t and the cards fall apart. An unexpected affair and an insane proposal from the wealthy patriarch... and everything hits the fan. Now she is unable to tell what her role is in this mansion. She is surprised by the wealthy wife’s acceptance of her relationship with their perfect doctor husband. She confides in her best friend, a girl she has known since childhood about her love and the strange...

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 ...

Steph spent months planning her perfect birthday celebration. Five days in an idyllic setting with her best friends. Long lazy lunches, crisp white wine by the pool and a climb up the beautiful Mont Ventoux. She couldn't wait. They’ve been there for each other through the good times and the bad. This was the break everyone needed. After their first night partying, they begin their hike. But as the lavender-scented air turns acrid from local wildfires, fierce winds whip up smoke–and tensions in the group. They become separated.

Zaara thought she had the perfect marriage—until she discovered her husband’s darkest secrets. What began as a series of late nights and unanswered calls spirals into a web of deception and betrayal when Zaara receives a set of chilling photos: her husband, Nathan, entwined with a striking young woman in a quiet hotel lobby. Her mind races, but nothing prepares her for what lies ahead. Determined to uncover the truth, Zaara steps into a world of manipulation, lies, and shadows that she never knew existed. But when she meets Alivia, the so-called “other woman,” everything changes. ...

We are all capable of murder, given the right circumstances and the wrong reasons. But what truly defines a murderer is what comes next—the choices made in the critical moments immediately following the act. Parker Grant, a young therapist in Atlanta, has built his life around control: a meticulously organized home, a carefully curated image, and a career dedicated to helping others untangle their chaos. But when an attractive client from couples therapy is killed in his own condo, Parker’s world begins to crumble. A mysterious package arrives at his office—a bloodied watch and ...

When Adam and Amelia Wright win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.

It happens more than you might think. One second someone’s life is totally typical, the next it’s terribly tragic. Everything they had, everything they planned, everything they were, all of it vanishes in a flash. Shock and sorrow leave the victim staring into tomorrow’s void, wondering: How did it happen? Who did it? And why?

Sophie wasn’t expecting to find love in Sicily. But then she sees him: Emilio, a professor who works at the university where she is teaching for the summer. He’s kind, intelligent, funny, exciting and deliriously unpredictable… …maybe perfect. But paradise quickly turns to purgatory as she uncovers the haunting disappearance of Emilio’s first wife. And when she senses a shadowy character following her, watching her every move, Sophie starts to question her grip on reality. Is she being paranoid, or is nothing about her new life really what it seems?

He warned me once. If I ever came back, he’d make sure I never left again. I should’ve listened. Zain Finley was my first love. My biggest mistake. The boy who turned obsession into a religion and made sure I’d never forget the way he broke me. Now I’m back in Magnolia Hills, and he’s waiting—like a shadow that never left. Watching. Hunting. Haunting. He doesn’t ask why I came home. He doesn’t care. He only wants one thing. Me. And this time, he’s not giving me the chance to run. Not without reminding me exactly who I belong to. I tell myself I hate him. That I’m ...