Disturbing Behaviors

If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages - are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want - thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about - this book may change your life.

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Kayleine watches her husband, Pete, from the couch—once a promising Major League hopeful, now a construction worker drowning in alcohol and anger. He was supposed to be a hero for their daughter, Sarah. Instead, he’s become the one thing Kayleine hoped to protect her from.When the whirl of patrol car lights spills through the blinds, painting the living room red and blue, Kayleine knows the reckoning has arrived. Sheriff Bobby—Old Bobby to everyone in town—stands outside with his deputies and a bullhorn, calling Pete out, giving him one last chance. But Kayleine can already feel the...

EDITORIAL REVIEW This novel delivers unrelenting psychological horror by showing how humanity adapts to unstoppable violence until survival itself becomes a trap. Cold, precise, and deeply unsettling, it replaces monsters with systems and fear with obedience. This is not comfort horror—it’s a disturbing, thought-provoking descent that stays with the reader long after the final page. UNAUTHORIZED PATTERN The first confirmed death occurred six days after the pattern was decoded. A viewer was found seated at his desk, eyes burned black from prolonged hemorrhaging, blood leaking from the ...

When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful and unforgettable novel by the author of The Lovely Bones . For years, Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic...