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In his debut novel, Burn Moor delivers on his promise to leave his readers' minds twisted…permanently.
Deep within the confines of his sheltered delusion, Bill Butler is a loving father and husband, and a successful corporate executive, but his reality is far different. Bill is estranged from his wife, detached from his daughter, and is a constant target of ridicule at his job – and he is on a straight path to mental breakdown.
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Henry's new family is heavenly by all outward appearances. But, it doesn't take long before he earns a role as servant in the foster home. The couple that vowed to care for him, chastise Henry for his "demons". While they're away at church, their children find new and terrifying ways to torture the boy. In the darkness of the basement where he sleeps, he experiences disturbing nightmares that send him on a frantic search for someone named Charlie....
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Tortured in the present, haunted by his past.
After losing his wife, Samantha, in a horrible accident, it takes several months for Matt to realize his friends and family are right. He needs to move on with his life. He needs to let the past be the past.
Reluctant but resolute, Matt takes their advice. But, from the moment he steps back into the dating world, bizarre incidences start happening around him. Objects throughout his house are inexplicably...
4) Fire Flies
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Kristen is living her dream. Life has not always been easy but when she is promoted to Lieutenant at Deerfield Beach Fire Rescue she doesn't think it can get any better. Then she meets Darren. Every little girl believes in fairy tales and Kris thinks she might finally have met her Prince Charming.
Until a night of passion ends with Darren begging her to call 911. If Kris calls she could lose her job. She could lose everything she worked so hard for....
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One Swedish winter morning, a normally placid engineer gives his boss a well deserved slap in the face. The question, "What's wrong with this idiot?" pitches Nilson and his friends into an adventure in forensic archaeology. But this is no ordinary crime investigation, as the elusive perpetrator is hiding in the most secret of all secret places, where no cop can go. Chipping away at the layers of society over beer and pizza, they start to uncover something...
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Andrew is a musician. He lives in Broken Hill with his partner, Julia, and three-year-old son, Ben. His widowed mother, Rose, lives in Adelaide. When he visits her, she gives him a letter and tells him not to open it until he gets home. Alone in his kitchen, he opens the letter. What he reads fills him with shock and outrage. He says nothing to Julia when she arrives home. In the middle of the night he quietly grabs Ben, leaving Julia asleep and heads...
8) Blood Ties
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Power to rule nations and wealth beyond any currency, have been inherited by the first born male heir for generations. In the public's eye, it's a position brought by money. In reality, it's a status brought by blood, paid to the dark lords of the center of the Earth. When a young prince takes power, he discovers that the assignment from his puppet masters, would lead to the enslavement of those in his region, and eventually the whole world. He can...
9) Dead Babies
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In this psychologically fueled drama, Molly Stroud-Smith tells the heart wrenching story of a mother teetering on the edge of the unthinkable as she suffers with undiagnosed postpartum psychosis. As a teenager, Doreen Rutherford is the victim of a brutal gang rape that shapes the course of her life. Shamed by her detached, religious parents, young Doreen is convinced that her rape had been a divine punishment, and commits to avoiding further wrath...
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A retired Psychologist enjoying a contemplative moment on a beautiful spring morning is confronted with memories of past cases of the many clients he had treated throughout his years of practice. To occupy the obvious spare time he has on his hands now, he evaluates the worth of writing a book offering its readers an insight into the lives of everyday people who, in many instances are inflicted with life turns not necessarily induced deliberately....
11) Singing Grass
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Richard Young, a psychologist with a troubled past, is now a psychotherapist in vibrant Taos, New Mexico. He is unsettled by a mysterious client, Christopher Carson, whose life-story bears an uncanny resemblance to the notable scout and pioneer of the old West, Kit Carson. Is this a case of a serious mental disorder or something more sinister, even mystical?
Richard's wife Sharon is a talented artist with a gallery in town....
12) Echoes of Evil
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When her entire family dies suddenly in a tragic car accident, psychology graduate student Susan McNealy is alone in the world. Five years later, now a respected psychologist, Susan meets and marries charismatic Steven Holmgren and becomes pregnant--on the outside, their life is a picture of domestic perfection. But when Susan unearths a morbid and horrific pattern with children in Steven's family, she begins to question her life with him. Is Steven...
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Middle-aged Solomon Weinstall meets an exotically attractive younger woman while grocery shopping and falls in love with her. She is tall, beautiful, and kind, but is not available or interested in him. The impact of this event changes Solomon and leads him to examine his life. Enraptured, Solomon decides a friendly email couldn't hurt. As he struggles with feelings he hasn't experienced since high school, he remembers and relives the joys and miseries...
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Doug, a 'burned out' and disillusioned psychotherapist, seeks serenity, peace and self-awareness by walking his favorite pier in order to sort out his painful experiences and make sense of his life. While on his walks, he is approached by unsolicited clients who seek his help. Walks Along the Pier is a series of fictional psychological case studies in the literary tradition of Linder, Viscott, Sigmund Freud and many others. Cynical, irreverent, often...
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After another weekend of not doing anything of value, Valerie, a 25-year old librarian is prepared to spend another sleepless night alone in her drab London bedsit. As the hours slowly crawl by, she tries each of her usual tricks to lull her mind, but her problems and worries, not to mention her noisy neighbors, keep pulling her back to reality. As she is wading through her memories, good and bad, her thoughts keep returning to two of her best friends:...
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"Another book about Marlon Brando? There are so many around!" I can almost hear you saying... What makes this book different from all others is the fact that for the first time Marlon is described the way he would have appreciated most. Was he really the most talented actor in Hollywood? Who cares, least of all Marlon himself. Was he really the wild, crazy, rebellious character everybody depicts? Maybe but there were justifications for that explosive...
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Jason Sterling never meant to put his life, or anyone else's in danger when he accepts an unusual job offer. The job has great perks and the Genier law firm's longstanding reputation, going back 170 years, assures him all is well. The alluring and mysterious Augere becomes his obsession. Jason knows little about him and he has a strong desire, a compulsion, to be in his presence and learn all he can. Augere's sumptuous home on Beacon Hill in Boston...
18) Final Chaos
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Is the world ravaged by climate change, where the global population has been driven underground and all life on the surface teeters on the brink of disastrous collapse, Jack Jennings joins the Aquaterrians to fight the government faction for the control of the world's most precious resource: water. As the world water wars rage across the country and water and food resources dwindle, in Colorado savant scientist Angela Starr dedicates her lab and considerable...
19) God's Therapist
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Without warning the world of Arthur Martindale, a successful psychologist implodes. Haunted by the death of his wife in a tragic accident, and the suicide of his seductive patient, Katherine Simmons, he identifies with the Biblical Job, asking "Why me, God?" Already under scrutiny by his licensing board because of Ms. Simmons suicide, Martindale is aware he is going out on a therapeutic limb treating a new patient, a Dutch physician, who has lost...
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Alice Francis leaves her life in London for a new start with Wall Street banker Jake Logan in New York. She learns quickly that Jake is consumed by his need to control. He loves, but on his terms. When Jake's ex-girlfriend, Jessica, finds out about Jake's relationship with Alice, Alice's life takes a dark turn. For all the trappings of success from a Wall Street career, Jake is tormented by an irrational guilt from his relationship with Jessica. Jessica...
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