psychological fiction

When sixteen-year-old Mary Veal suddenly vanishes after her after-school hockey practice and later returns, her mother sends her to a local psychologist Dr. Hammer who doubts Mary's story that she was abducted.

In the 1980s, David and Sarah are freshman students at a highly competitive performing arts school when they fall in love. Their relationship has its joys and challenges until the outside world penetrates this isolated environment in a shocking turn of events. A dozen years later, a new voice sheds doubt on the people and events of the past, and experiences one final shocking act.

Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in France under German occupation, and he works as a pimp in his mother's whorehouse when he murders a German soldier.

The underground city of New Canaan is safe from the Forgetting which afflicts Canaan above ground, but in her rigidly controlled and repressive city eighteen-year-old Samara, one of the Knowing, is plagued by her memory of the horrors she has seen, and determined to seek answers in the cursed city above--where she will find Beckett Rodriguez and his parents, on a mission from Earth to study the lost colony.

Thirty-year-old Mikey Callahan, whose vision is blurred by macular degeneration, struggles with social and interpersonal relationships. When an old friend commits suicide, Mikey reconnects with their formerly tight knit group of childhood friends. This renewed connection with one another forces the members of their group to face their own dark secretes and troubling memories in order to move forward.

After Milly's mother is arrested as a serial killer, Milly goes to live with a foster family and given a new name, new school, and whole new life. But things begin to unravel and Milly begins to question if she is really that much different than her mother.

When the hedonistic and glamorous couple of Peter and Cara move into the Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico, the woman living in the upper floors researching the architecture in the mansion's gardens. One day Frances accidentally finds a peephole beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, giving her access into the private lives of her new neighbors. Then, surprisingly, Cara and Peter welcome her into their lives as a friend, but as Frances gets to know the couple it becomes clear that something is off between them, and things spiral out of control leading to a terrible crime that will sear their lives forever.

This story, told in three distinct narratives, explores the imbalances that sustain human relationships. The first section tells the story of a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. The next is narrated by an Iraqi-American man who is detained by immigration officers at Heathrow Airport on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan,. And the third is an interview with Blazer as he talks about life, love, and legacy.

Ever since he was born, Elliot has suffered terrible anxiety and fear, fear even of his own feelings of fear. Only a daily regimen of pills makes life manageable--but one Christmas Eve the pharmacy has mixed-up his prescription, threatening to unleash "the beast," as Elliot calls it. His mother heads out during the severe snowstorm, with the pharmacy only ten minutes away, and hours later is still gone. The only thing to do is for Elliot to face his fear and head out after her, hoping his medication will last before the beast takes over his mind.

Jen Maddox is determined to understand what happened to her daughter, Lana, during the four days she was missing. But Lana is equally determined not to discuss it and hides her memories behind a claim that she cannot remember. But Jen won't let it rest. As she watches Lana spiral into a deeper depression, she investigates her daughter's life and uncovers the truth behind why she was gone.