Psychological Twists

A love story. A dream. A journey. An awakening. A race against time. A story that has never been told. A story about a man and a woman. A father and a son. Two friends. A story of a life rewritten. Finding truth in life and dreams. And a warning that sometimes, a dream come true can turn into a nightmare. Robert Lewis finds himself living an experience that everyone, at least once in their life, has dreamed of. He wakes up one day, inexplicably living the life of his dreams, married to the woman of his dreams and with the success and fame he always imagined. But he soon realizes what he ...

One survivor. One killer. One full moon at a time. Jenifer Walker is the only known survivor of the 29 Day Killer, a ritualistic murderer who strikes every full moon. For years, she’s been haunted by what happened—and determined to stop it from happening again. Now, she’s not just a victim. She’s the hunter. As the lunar cycle begins again and new victims are discovered, Jenifer pushes past police red tape and into a deadly game of cat and mouse. But how far is she willing to go for justice—or revenge? 29 is a chilling psychological thriller with a fierce female lead, combining ...

A more-than-meets-the-eye housekeeper. An unrelenting and demanding feminist boss. The question is, who is actually using who? When their worlds eventually clash, only one can come out on top! Eliska Hudakova is from Slovakia. Hired to work as a housekeeper for a demanding and bitter academic, there's a lot more to her and her past. Not quite the delicate nobody her boss assumes, she will not stand idle when push comes to shove. Elizabeth Clement-Walters is a hyper critical, acerbic former feminist icon. Determined to make the work as arduous as possible for the seemingly inoffensive ...

From the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair comes a darkly immersive, emotionally gripping domestic thriller where deception is survival, truth is a weapon, and the cost of keeping secrets may be higher than anyone is willing to pay. If you passed me on the street, you wouldn't look twice. I have it all—the husband, the kids, the house on the hill. Hell, I even have the white picket fence. I am the American dream. But here's the thing about dreams: they shatter. Beneath the surface, my life is coming undone. One mistake—one decision I never should have made—has set off a ...

Horror! Suspense! Halloween haunts! Everything that goes bump in the night is here, waiting to be read... if you dare. This collection of Twisted Tales contains Volumes 13-16 in all their gory, gruesome short story goodness.

From behind the curtains, Sarah spotted the man coming out of the house, followed by the woman. It would be strange seeing people in the property. She wondered how much it would change their lives. For now, she would bide her time and hopefully get to know them better. She needed to gain their trust.

Raven has everything important to her: career and money. The decisions she made are purposeful and calculated, leaving no wiggle room for regret to seep in. As the head of the consulting team, she called the shots of who stayed hospitalized and who had to move to other facilities, pretty much a call of life or death. The financial benefits were tremendous, and Raven justified each when morality and ethics were questioned until that is, a disabled Ruby was admitted, and Raven had to deal with her brother, Clark, who refused to have his sister moved to a long-term facility. More than the ...

What has given Greg an obsession with suicide? Why is Helen afraid of her past catching her? When did Phillip start to collect useless trinkets? Who in the British Government want all three dead? When journalist Helen Taylor lands her dream job on a national newspaper, she could never have imagined that her first assignment would become her worst nightmare. Travelling to France for a simple story, Helen encounters Phillip, a puzzling Englishman who avoids contact with anyone. When she meets him, she feels there is something dark about him, which may provide her with a major scoop. Greg, an ...

Revised - Revamped - Refreshed in 2025 A Gripping Psychological Thriller That Will Keep You Riveted Until the Very Last Page… Investigating historical murders is nothing new for crime writer James and his new partner Geraldine—until the past turns dangerously personal. When Geri becomes the target of a relentless killer, their research takes a deadly twist. The closer they get to the truth, the more perilous the game becomes. Next door, Lee Barnes is preparing for his wife Lydia’s return. She’s spent six years behind bars for the unimaginable—killing their infant son. But as he ...

My baby is due in two weeks. Hand on my bump, I swear to my little girl, I won't be anything like my mother. I'm walking home after the perfect baby shower, enjoying the cool summer evening breeze. I can't wait to rest my aching feet. I'm almost at my door when the world goes black.

Every day, in her basement flat in a quiet street, Rene arranges her collection of objects just so. She takes her pills, looks at her photographs and remembers her free-spirited sister, Lauren, before she vanished. But lately the memories are shifting. When a letter arrives out of the blue, the opening words send ice through her veins. Lauren is alive. She’s waiting. And she needs Rene to find her before it’s too late.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR CHILD IS A PSYCHOPATH? One night when Jennifer Hanson returns home, she catches her 12-year-old son Shane stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. Having long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies, her worst fears may be confirmed. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. He has behaved normally up until now. Have her efforts been in vain? She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she ...

There were only two things that Lori enjoyed in life. One of those two things was hiking. She had been eagerly anticipating her hike in the Red River Gorge and was looking forward to the tranquility of the trail. She was unaware that a psychopath had other plans. Lori was left for dead on the trail and awakened in the hospital with serious injuries and no memory. Who was she and what was going on? As she struggles to find the answers she can only rely on the handsome young doctor whose face was the first thing she saw when she awakened in the hospital. Can she trust him? Can he save her ...

When Louise Taylor is hit by a car as she cycles home in the rain following a fight with her boyfriend, she’s left hurt, frightened, and confused. And worse, something tells her it wasn’t an accident. Housebound in her cramped apartment while she recovers, flashbacks to her traumatic childhood begin to resurface. Desperate to keep busy and distract herself, she hires Edward - a friend of a friend - to repaint her shabby living room and, hopefully, keep the past at bay. When Edward arrives - quiet, considerate, and handsome - Lou instantly feels like they’ve met before.

What's that movement behind the curtain? Why are those seagulls coming so close? What’s that light in the sky? Is that mist on the water? How sharp is that knife? Do dragons dwell in deep space? These questions and more are answered in Dark Rooms, ten short stories of dark fiction, supernatural, suspense and psychological horror all bound together with a black sense of humour. Stories of sibling love... and hate, and the dangers of driving in the rain. Would you really want to be stranded on a deserted island? And some days, going to the circus isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Open ...

He’s my stepbrother. My tormentor. My shameful obsession. When Hayley Barton is dumped into the icy halls of Atheria Elite Academy, all she wants is to survive long enough to prove she belongs. But survival becomes a blood sport when she’s forced to live across the hall from her new stepbrother—Jenson Davidson—the Academy’s crown prince of cruelty. He rules Atheria like a dark god in designer threads, and he’s made one thing clear: Hayley’s his new favorite game. Every hallway becomes a hunting ground. Every whisper of “mouse” echoes with humiliation. And every brush of ...

The award winning new book in the, "Twisting Darkness," series by J.R. Gridley. Both books are self-contained, so there is no need to read the first book to understand the sequel. The five new stories include, a group of friends who are hunted by a creature that should not exist. A serial killer whose past comes back for him. A hospital in the middle of a lockdown becomes the spawning ground for nightmares. A woman who gave up her heart is presented with an opportunity to get it back. A man with an entire city trying to kill him. This newest collection of short stories by J.R. Gridley will ...

The end is near... This volume of Twisted Tales dives headlong into the end of everything - shortly after the bombs fall and the mushroom clouds have barely settled. Erica's Stepfather (She might very well be the last woman on Earth, but Erica can't get him out of her head), Jacob's Final Days (Life on the farm comes to a fiery end), Waiting it Out (Michael and Amanda are twins hiding in the remains of a shopping mall as a murderous psychopath searches for them)

A third suspenseful collection of terrifying short stories! These Twisted Tales cover it all, from zombified raccoons to the horrifying ramifications of social distancing. And of course you'll find enough ghosts, vampires, alien creatures, and other sociopathic monstrosities to leave you fear-filled until the late hours of darkest night.

From the biggest of creatures to the teeniest-weeniest monsters... Twisted Tales 7 dives deep into the troubled minds of psychopaths, travels across the globe into dark jungles, and even calls ancient gods from the sky. What a Zombie Thinks (peeks inside the mushy minds of the shambling dead), When the Rain Came (the dangerous side of deity worship), Monkey Business (a retired general takes on his greatest foe), The Infestation (what happens when billions of vampire ticks are let loose), Ups and Downs (don't get caught out on the road after dark)