psychological fiction

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The lies I tell

a novel
Meg, a veteran con artist, comes back into town after ten years away and chooses her next target, but this time journalist Kat Roberts is waiting for her. Meg upended Kat's life a decade ago and now Kat is about to expose her and get justice for the past. However, as the two women get closer, Kat discovers that things aren't what they appear to be.

Acts of violet

2022
It's been ten years since famous magician Violet Volk vanished during her big disappearing-act finale, never to be seen again. Her sister, Sasha, has created a life out of the spotlight for herself and her daughter, Quinn, after inheriting her mother's salon. But as the tenth anniversary draws near, Sasha is contacted by Cameron Frank, the host of a podcast devoted to all things Violet, about doing an interview. Sasha wants nothing to do with him, but Quinn finds herself becoming more and more curious about the aunt she always idolized. Sasha soon begins experiencing strange sleepwalking episodes and coincidences that seem to be connected to Violet, and she's forced to confront her feelings about what really happened all those years ago.

The sound of butterflies

2008
Naturalist Thomas Edgar returns from a voyage to the Brazilian Amazon, where he was searching for a fabled butterfly, a shell of his former self, and as his wife, Sophie, searches from clues about what happened to traumatize her husband, she uncovers shocking secrets about Thomas and herself.

Time out of joint

2012
After a series of troubling hallucinations, Ragle Gumm begins to suspect that his memories have been altered and that he is living in a universe gone terribly awry.

How to find your way in the dark

2021
In 1938, after the apparently intentional murder of his father, the now-orphaned twelve-year-old Sheldon vows revenge. The fire of his need to get whoever it was who killed his father takes him to Hartford, where he grows up under the buttoned-up watch of Uncle Nate together with his teenage cousins Mirabelle and Abe. World War II takes center stage in everyone's lives soon, and Sheldon, still seeking vengeance, comes to learn that life is largely composed of crimes, whether wrongly or rightly committed.

What blooms from dust

Just as Jeremiah Goodbye is set to meet his fate in the electric chair, a tornado tears down the prison walls, and he is given a second chance at life. With the flip of a coin, he decides to return to his home town of Nowhere, Oklahoma, to settle the score with his twin brother Josiah. But upon his escape, he enters a world he doesn't recognize--one that has been overtaken by the Dust Bowl. And the gift he once relied on to guide him is as unrecognizable as the path back to Nowhere. After one jolt in Old Sparky, Jeremiah sees things more clearly and begins to question the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murders he was accused of. On his journey home, he accidentally rescues a young boy who follows him the rest of the way, and the pair arrive at their destination where they are greeted by fearful townspeople. When the Black Sunday storm hits the very next day, the residents of Nowhere finally begin to let the past few years of hardship bury them under the weight of all that dust. Unlikely heroes, Jeremiah and his new companion, Peter Cotton, try to protect the townspeople from themselves, but Jeremiah must face his nightmares and free himself from the guilt of flipping the coin on those men who died. Filled with mystery and magic, What Blooms from Dust is the story of finding hope in the midst of darkness and discovering the beauty of unexpected kindness.

Unless

2006
Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.

Hunting fear

2005
Kidnapping would-be victims in Golden, N.C., a serial killer sets up a torturous ending for them and then dares the lawmen to arrive in time for a last-second rescue. The primary agent assigned to stop the carnage is Lucas Jordan, who leads the investigation with a unique team of clairvoyant agents.

Burnout

1999
After Lacie Wagner's daughter is kidnapped, she receives a videotape which shows her daughter being burned alive, accompanied by a voice that is right out of Lacie's nightmares, and now, with the help of FBI agent Jack Stein, Lacie is forced to face her past and find the man whose quest for revenge is ruining her life.

Home before dark

Maggie Holt's father bequeaths an old Victorian mansion to her after he dies--a mansion that is supposedly haunted. Maggie barely remembers when her family lived there--a mere three weeks--before they fled in the middle of the night. Her father even wrote a book about the experience, which became a best-seller. Maggie doesn't believe the house is haunted, but does want to renovate it, in order to sell it, and hopes put to rest some of the memories of the past. The house, however, has other plans.

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