Psychological Publishing

Malia lives with Cole, her little boy. They are always together and live a very quiet life because absolutely everyone else is the world has gone, including Malia's beloved husband Josh. Malia can't think too deeply about what has happened, or why she and Cole are the only people left on the planet. The thought scares her, so she lives what she perceives to be a 'normal' existence until one day, she is messaged by someone on defunct social media channels. In a desperate attempt to connect to this man, Malia strikes up an online friendship with Ian, in Australia. That's when even more ...

The Trader of Chicago by H. Wilhelm Starkweather is a psychological fiction novel set in early 20th century Chicago. It captures the tumultuous world of speculative trading and the intricate dynamics of a wealthy family in the Windy City. Gina Brown, a young woman from a small town in Massachusetts, finds herself thrust into the high-stakes world of Chicago's trading floors and social elite. As she navigates the complexities of love, ambition, and familial duty, Gina's journey becomes a riveting exploration of human psychology and societal pressures. A captivating psychological thriller ...

Be careful where you share your secrets. You don’t know who’s listening. Charlie Ray has a bit of a sleep disorder. She sleeps like the dead. When it’s time to get up, she’s up. But when she’s asleep, she’s completely unaware of the world. It’s been a big joke to her family and friends for years. Sleepovers were wrought with pranks. She’s learned to laugh it off. It’s never been a problem…until someone finds out and decides it’s something to have fun with. Someone dark. Someone dangerous. When she is at her most vulnerable, they come out to play. What starts out ...

Jessica has lived her whole life reliving a horror show from her childhood. Her imaginary friend saved her life from a killer... Now Malia is back. In a way that is far too real to be make believe.

A technological tale of terror. An exploration of artificial intelligence and simulation theory. Journey into the abyss of the human mind and discover the nightmares that await you. Imagine human consciousness transferred into a simulation where nightmares become vividly real. Within the immersive confines of the simulation, neuroscience student Dade Simmons embarks on a transformative journey alongside three fellow students. An unforeseen calamity befalls the students when a sinister force, long-dormant inside Dade’s psyche, is inadvertently unleashed inside the simulation. As the ...

This was meant to be the perfect honeymoon. A five-star beach resort in Vietnam, with white sands, private villas and world-class cuisine. A chance for newlyweds Asha and Ollie Graveney to recover from a tragedy that has left them on the verge of collapse. Except things don't go as planned. When Asha wakes up in hospital after a brutal attack, her husband is nowhere to be found. And paradise has turned into a nightmare....

Everyone knows about the fight between Kathleen Walsh and her sister on the night she disappeared. For six months, no one has heard from Kathleen. Not her bullying husband, not her teenage son, and not her devastated sister Siobhan. But then Kathleen’s purse is found by a walker high up on the rocky Irish sea cliffs. The only thing inside is a torn scrap of paper with the words ‘HELP ME’. For Siobhan, it’s a chance to find her sister and fix the mistake she made six months ago. But not everyone in the tight-knit community welcomes Siobhan’s interest in the disappearance.

Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbour community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl - but that's just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable - until Sadie is found dead.

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plantlike' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion.

Thirty-six-year-old stay-at-home soccer mom Kate Burke is happily married to Matt Parsons, although their marriage looks very different behind closed doors. Kate is no longer interested in having sex with her husband. So, while they still love each other madly, they make an arrangement: Matt can have one-night stands with other women on work trips, but when he returns home, he has to tell Kate about them—every juicy detail.

When Veronica Lewis wakes up in a Nevada hospital, the doctors tell her that she was badly injured in a car accident. She claims to be a college student at New York University, but a quick call to the admissions department reveals that she graduated years ago. Vonny has no memory of the past decade and no idea what she was doing in Nevada. The situation intensifies when a pair of detectives shows up at the hospital. They inform Vonny that her husband, John, was recently found dead. The detectives reveal that he was murdered in an alleyway and want to begin questioning her immediately.

The night before his eighteenth birthday, Toby Kellerman fell ninety feet down a well. Seven weeks passed in what he describes as “suspension h***,” a rotating bed for spinal cord injuries compounded by bone breaks. Able to move only his arms and watch life through an adjustable mirror, Toby had plenty of time to think about how he got there. Somebody had pushed him.

Schweig, um zu leben. Leni kommt nach Hamburg, um dort ein Praktikum zu machen. Über eine Zimmervermittlung mietet sie sich in einer Villa am Kanal ein. Schnell freundet sie sich mit ihrer Zimmernachbarin an - aber die ist am nächsten Morgen spurlos verschwunden. Weil ihr das merkwürdig vorkommt, sucht sie nach ihr. Freddy Förster, früher erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, ist inzwischen auf der Straße gelandet. Zufällig beobachtet er, wie jemand einen Mann am Steuer seines Autos erschießt. Um nicht zum nächsten Opfer zu werden, sucht er den Mörder.

Discipline alone isn’t enough. It burns hot, then burns out. What you need is a system that functions under pressure, fatigue, and failure—because motivation disappears long before your goals do. This is a no-fluff, zero-hype guide to making high-intensity training sustainable. Built around the proven framework of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), this book delivers obsessively practical tools for athletes, bodybuilders, and coaches who demand more than clichés and cheerleading. You’ll learn how to navigate performance anxiety, emotional rigidity, binge-restrict cycles, and post-...

ABOUT THE BOOK After Arizona police detective Daniel Saviano confronts and kills his mobster father, Jack, he is plunged into decades of family memories and secrets that he had managed to bury deep in his subconscious. At the same time, despite Jack’s apparent death, a string of local murders carrying his modus operandi continues with increasing brutality. Is it possible that Jack survived and is continuing his murderous ways? Or is someone he knew taking on after him? Facing a plethora of twists and turns, Daniel must sort through dark memories and a tangled web of mystery to find the ...

Sharon Stevenson is a forensic psychiatrist. Her job is to decide whether a patient is of sound enough mind to stand trial, not whether they did or didn’t commit a crime. But Sharon is also a mother grieving the disappearance of her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maddie, who has never been found. And what if the man sitting before her, who has been charged with the murders of several women, also claimed the life of her sweet girl? It’s time to find out the truth.

In the aftermath of his wife's apparent suicide, Jackson Robert Hunter wakes up outside a bar with a badly battered head and no memory. Revelations convince Jackson that his wife's death wasn't a suicide, but a murder, and he sets out to find the killer. While hunting the villain and struggling with his amnesia, Jackson discovers that his own backstory is a dark one, littered with broken hearts and dead bodies: a wife he betrayed, a lover he abandoned, a squad of crooked cops he double-crossed, and a city that lives in fear of his name.

Twenty-nine-year-old Emma is an intelligent, strong-willed and ambitious public relations exec that has come a long way from her strict and humble upbringing. She is independent to a fault and has never been one to seek help. When she suspects her sudden and frequent nightmares are the cause of her rapidly deteriorating health, she turns to renowned psychiatrist and oneirologist, Dr. Edward Clark.

In the vast Nevada desert, some secrets refuse to stay buried. When a hiker stumbles upon human remains in the remote Black Rock Desert, Chief Detective Hector Ramirez is pulled into a twenty-five-year-old murder case that will shake the foundations of Reno's power structure. As his team uncovers evidence linking the death to a controversial casino development project, they realize they're dealing with more than just a cold case—they're confronting a decades-long web of corruption that reaches into the heart of law enforcement itself. With mounting pressure from influential figures ...

You wonder how many things could go wrong in a single day? You embark on a weekend outing to unwind with friends. Float trip during the day, winery celebration at night. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Well, just wait. You just wait. As the lazy summer day drifts by, who is telling you the truth? What devious plan is in play? And whose blood will spill? Another entertaining thriller by C.Y. Stewart, adding to the well-acclaimed Carrie and Steve Series. This time, the emotions are real, the experience so close to home. Caution: To remain true to the reality-based characters and to stay authentic, ...