psychological fiction

Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels off. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can't he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact -- he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

It's the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests' healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the "Manor Mule" cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen. And yet, outside The Manor's immaculately kept grounds, and ancient forest bristles with secrets. The local community resents what they see as the Manor's intrusion into the local woods and attempts to privatize the beach, and small skirmishes have erupted on the edges of the property between locals and the staff. And the whispers keep coming, about an old piece of pagan folklore--it must be folklore--the Night Birds, an avenging force that can be called upon to make right wrongs that elude the law. Though surely everything at the Manor has been done aboveboard. On the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. There's been a fire. A body's been discovered. Something's not right with the guests. What happened on the grounds of the Manor the past 36 hours? And who--or what--is the cause? Everyone has an agenda. Everyone has a past. But not everyone will survive...The Midnight Feast.

Every day Rachel takes the same commuter train, and every day she sees the same couple--Jess and Jason she names them in her mind--eating breakfast on their deck. One day everything changes with Jess and Jason. Rachel goes to the police, but they call her an unreliable witness. Delving deeper into what happened herself, Rachel begins to suspect she has done more harm than good, and finds herself entangled in the lives of all involved.

While on a flight to Denver to start working with a mysterious client, Jake Buchannan knows he recognizes the woman sitting next to him in seat 2A; he just can't figure out from where. When the woman, Clara, reveals that she's heading to Denver to kill herself in the mountains, Jake is left reeling. As Jake begins to work with his client and Clara travels to Aspen to kill herself, they both begin to realize that their meeting was no accident and that long-forgotten events from their childhoods are coming back to haunt them in the present.

During an evening at her local bar, Emma's life changes forever. She divorced her husband Lucas nine months ago, and now her acquaintances at the bar reminisce about him. As the night goes on, Emma realizes things about her past that now haunt her, cause her to reflect on how she arrived at that moment, and force her to consider where she will go from there.

A group of Oxford graduates in their thirties, continuing a tradition they began ten years ago, meet for Christmas break at an isolated, beautiful estate in the Scottish Highlands. A historic blizzard seals off their lodge from the world, and two days later one of the classmates is dead--and one of the other ones did it. Secret resentments come to light and the cord holding the friends together snaps.

While on a flight to Denver to start working with a mysterious client, Jake Buchannan knows he recognizes the woman sitting next to him in seat 2A; he just can't figure out from where. When the woman, Clara, reveals that she's heading to Denver to kill herself in the mountains, Jake is left reeling. As Jake begins to work with his client and Clara travels to Aspen to kill herself, they both begin to realize that their meeting was no accident and that long-forgotten events from their childhoods are coming back to haunt them in the present.

"Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. David and Adele seem like the ideal pair. He's a successful psychiatrist, she is his picture-perfect wife who adores him. But why is he so controlling? And why is she keeping things hidden? As Louise, David's new secretary, is drawn into their orbit, she uncovers more puzzling questions than answers. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong. But Louise can't guess how wrong--and how far a person might go to protect their marriage's secrets. "--.

Thirty-five-year-old Hazel walks out of her marriage to the powerful CEO of Gogol Industries--a monolithic corporation with questionable motives and unlimited resources--after her husband, Byron, demands she wear a microchip in her brain that will link the two permanently in the first ever mind-meld. As a response, Hazel moves in with her oddball father and his lifelike sex doll and tries to carve out a new life for herself away from the secure compound she came from and amongst a community of misfits. But Byron doesn't take her leaving lightly and will do anything it takes to get her back.

In seventeenth century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she has committed.