psychological fiction

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marriage counselor Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the perfect life and writing a book called "You Should Have Known" that urges women to listen to their intuition about men. But when a young woman Grace knows is murdered, and Grace's husband goes missing, Grace is forced to rethink everything she has ever known and recreate her life.

After serving in Iraq with the Army, a young man returns to America with severe PTSD and falls into drug addiction. This addiction leads him to rob multiple banks.

Delta Dawn, a photographer no longer content just observing the perfect lives of NYC's elite citizens but wanting a piece of the pie for herself, is hired to photograph the eleventh birthday party of Natalie Straub. Using her connection to the family, Dawn becomes not only Natalie's photographer but also her nanny, befriends the mother, and ingratiates herself with the father. Slowly, Dawn finds in herself the frightening power to not only manipulate photos, but also the real world--but at a high cost.

Thirty-something "millennial everywoman" Kim Jiyoung leaves her white-collar desk job to fulfill the South Korean expectation that she will focus on being a mother to her newborn daughter, full-time. It isn't long before Jiyoung exhibits an alarming species of psychosis--she begins speaking in perfect impersonations of the voices of other women, living and dead. Her husband demands she goes to see a male psychologist, and there, in the male dominated world, Jiyoung lets out her grievances, from her childhood till now.