psychological fiction

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psychological fiction

Try not to breathe

2013
The summer sixteen-year-old Ryan is released from a mental hospital following his suicide attempt, he meets Nicki, who gets him to share his darkest secrets while hiding secrets of her own.

Suttree

1992
Cornelius Suttree, having abandoned a life of privilege, takes up life as a river fisherman on a dilapidated houseboat near Knoxville, Tennessee, where he encounters an assortment of eccentrics and outcasts.

A thousand tomorrows

2005
Cody Gunner and Ali Daniels, both rodeo champions, struggle to overcome the hurts of the past and the uncertainty of the future when they meet and fall in love.

Breaking Her Fall

2004
"On an ordinary summer night, Tucker Jones picks up the phone, expecting to hear from his fourteen-year-old daughter Kat. Instead it's another parent, who reports that Kat is not, as promised, at the movies, but at a party--and makes a shocking allegation about her activities there. Furious, Tucker races to the party to find Kat already departed. But his interrogation of the teenage boys still present doesn't end until one of them crashes into a glass tabletop. In a second, Tucker's rage turns to remorse. Soon he is under arrest. He could easily lose his home and his business. But, most importantly, will he lose his daughter?"--back cover.

Paint it black

a novel
2006
Following the suicide of her lover, art student Michael Faraday, Josie Tyrell, an art model and teenage runaway, struggles to come to terms with his death and to deal with his mother, Meredith, who holds her responsible for the tragedy.

The burn palace

2013
In the sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, packs of coyotes gather on back roads; a baby has been stolen from Memorial Hospital (and replaced by a snake), and a series of violent acts begins to confound Detective Woody Potter and the local police.

Ray in reverse

2000
Now in heaven, Ray has time to reflect on his short life of fifty years and his life's most crucial moments--of infidelity, his marriage, the dog he accidentally killed, the baby he saved, and the penny he had to have.

Sing them home

2009
The three grown Jones children are forced to return to their childhood home upon the death of their father, which forces them to revisit memories of their mother, Hope Jones, whose tragic death has impacted each of their lives greatly.

The region of lost names

a novel
2008
On separate trips, Ernest and Magdalene discover their true thoughts about their families and begin to think about them and the past mistakes of their parents.

Fledgling

2007
Shori, a fifty-three-year-old vampire who appears as a young girl, wakes up in a cave and becomes the target of a plot to kill her and the rest of her species.

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