Twisted Psychological Thriller

Every family has secrets, and on the hottest day of the year, the truth is about to come out. As a tragedy unfolds behind closed doors, the dawn chorus is split by the wail of sirens. And one by one the families who tried so hard to welcome the Wests begin to realise: Hogarth Street will never be the same again.

705 A chilling psychological thriller where the next guest is you. There’s a motel on the edge of a forgotten road. The staff don’t age. The guestbook never fills. And everyone who checks in wakes up changed—or doesn’t wake up at all. Welcome to Sanctuary Edge. Room 705 is waiting. EARLY RECEPTION 4.71/5 average on Goodreads (21 ratings; 4 Nov 2025) WHAT READERS ARE SAYING — “Eerie, cinematic, relentless.” — “Quiet, claustrophobic horror that lingers.” — “A haunted room that feels alive—and it remembers you.” When a string of troubled strangers arrive at the ...

A hidden identity. A violent past. A killer who knows her better than she knows herself. I live by routines. Locked doors. Controlled schedules. Predictable days. Five years ago, I survived a violent attack while working as a real estate agent in Augusta. I escaped a man who should have been just another client—and I ran. I changed my name. I moved states. I rebuilt my life in Nashville, one listing at a time. I don’t talk about the past. I don’t revisit old memories. I tell myself survival was enough. Then a client is murdered at one of my properties. Then a colleague vanishes. Then ...

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED? The first lie: MONSTERS DON’T EXIST. When the body of a man is discovered in the Boston Common, Martina finds herself entering a horrific nightmare. She discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of ancient methods of persecution being carried out by a Puritan-indoctrinated serial killer who believes the devil walks among us. The second lie: YOU WOULD KNOW A MONSTER IF YOU SAW ONE. After the first victim is dismissed as gang-related, Martina fears there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her instincts are soon proven correct when another...

At exactly 1: 45pm, three phones buzz with the same message: I know what you did on Valentine’s Day. Alice… Faith sees it first. Mick sees it next. River sees it last. Each recipient carries a secret from the day Alice vanished, secrets entwined with the whispers of Blackstone, a village where death is never as simple as it seems. So, did Alice disappear by choice? Or has she fallen victim to a killer with a twisted idea of mercy? Someone has been watching. Someone knows. And when another body appears, it’s clear the message is more than a threat—it’s a countdown.

Framed for murder. Surrounded by women with secrets. I’ve spent my whole life becoming someone else. A new name. A polished history. A flawless facade—all carefully constructed to earn me a place in Magnolia Estates, the most exclusive neighborhood in Mississippi. Joining the Magnolia Estates book club feels like the final seal of approval. These women are everything I’ve pretended to be: wealthy, elegant, untouchable. But perfection is exhausting. And every woman in that room is hiding something. Betsey Hartwell watches me like she knows who I really am. Margot Spencer’s designer ...

A missing husband. A reality dating experiment. A marriage built by an algorithm. I wake up to find my husband gone. Not my real husband. My algorithmic husband. The man I was matched with on a high-stakes reality dating show, where strangers marry at first meeting, live together for thirty days, and compete for life-changing prize money—all under constant surveillance. Jonas wasn’t supposed to disappear. Not without a goodbye. Not after the vows. Not after the intimacy that felt uncomfortably real. Production claims he quit. No explanation. No warning. No contact. Just a vanished groom...

A Christmas homecoming. A missing family. A reality no one else remembers. I come home for the holidays expecting family traditions and seasonal comfort. Instead, I find my sister alone in my parents’ living room—calm, radiant, and strangely untouched by time. There’s just one problem. Her husband and children don’t exist. Marlowe insists she was never married. My parents back her up with concerned smiles and soft reassurances, blaming my memories on stress, exhaustion, and emotional fragility after what happened years ago. But I remember everything. Holiday dinners. Childhood ...

After an affair wrecks their marriage, Dan and Miranda Kelly attempt to escape with their young daughter to the remote lake town of Pinewood, Kansas. It’s a new start, a chance to heal and begin a new chapter of their lives. More importantly, it’s an opportunity to forget Abby, the woman who nearly destroyed their family. Unfortunately, Dan and Miranda soon discover that past mistakes cannot be avoided so easily. Shortly after beginning their new life in Pinewood, Dan begins to receive harassing messages from Abby, warning him that she will not be easily forgotten. What begins as ...

She trusted her instincts—until suspicion turned every quiet moment into a threat. I watch them every day at the pool. Tiffanie in her designer swimsuit. The Donahue girls endlessly scrolling. Steve, counting out his fifty perfect laps. They don’t notice me watching. They don’t know I’m cataloging their routines, their habits, their secrets—every carefully constructed version of who they pretend to be. My husband flies international routes: Singapore, London, Dubai. He’s gone more than he’s home. And when he is home, he’s already somewhere else. At first, it’s small things...

"I thought this job would be the perfect escape. A winter alone at an empty lodge in remote Montana—just me, the snow, and the silence. No past to haunt me, no secrets to unravel. But this silence isn't peaceful; it's heavy, dark, and watching. There are noises at night—soft footsteps, whispers of movement when no one should be there. Rachel, the manager, seems nice enough. Yet behind her smiles, I sense lies. Secrets. Like she's waiting, watching for me to reveal something. Like she knows my past, knows why I'm really here. Something is dangerously wrong at the lodge, and I'm starting ...

A heart-pounding FBI thriller where the hunter becomes the hunted. Ten-year-old Sarah Truby disappears without a trace in Charlottesville, Virginia—and the case hits far too close to home for FBI Agent River Collins. Twenty years ago, she was the one who vanished. She survived. Her captor was never caught. When River learns Sarah had been chatting online with a man posing as her friend, and she realizes this isn’t just one missing child. It’s the gateway into a predator’s network. The deeper River digs, the more she’s forced to confront the horrors of her own past… and the ...

"One of the most unnerving and intelligent psychological thrillers you will read this year. Utterly unputdownable." WELCOME TO THE GLASS HOUSE. From the outside, the home is an architectural marvel in the quiet town of Willowbrook. Walls of glass. Open spaces. No secrets. From the inside, it is a prison. And Claire Montgomery is not its owner. She is its warden. After an unspeakable act of violence shattered her family, Claire’s life has become a suffocating routine of surveillance. She checks locked drawers. She tracks screen time. She counts every breath. She is desperately trying to ...

A small-town missing girl thriller. A cold case disappearance. A wrongful accusation. A copycat abduction. A daughter determined to clear her stepfather’s name. I was fifteen when Waverly Martin vanished from my rec room during a birthday sleepover. One open window. One silent house. One missing girl. By morning, she was gone—taken while we slept three feet away. The police blamed my stepfather. The town believed them. And over the next ten years, I watched a broken man drown under the weight of suspicion, gossip, and an accusation he could never outrun. A disgraced family. A public ...

THE WATCHER A stranger is watching, but the real danger is inside the house. Claire thought moving to a remote cottage with her husband would be a new beginning. Instead, every day brings a fresh reminder that someone is out there – watching. A shadow at the tree line. Eyes that seem fixed on her whenever she is alone. But when she turns to Daniel for comfort, his distance cuts deeper than her fear. Is the stranger tormenting her? Or is the real threat the man she thought she knew best? As the walls close in, Claire realizes escape isn't possible. Not from the past. Not for the truth. And...

Uncovering her husband’s family secrets could cost her everything… Ally’s perfect marriage to Tim Hawthorne is crumbling under the weight of one trial after another. Forced to visit Tim’s mother on her secluded island off the coast of Maine, Ally uncovers a sinister secret: years ago, a member of the family was the prime suspect in a young woman’s disappearance from the same island. Now, history is repeating itself. Another woman has vanished without a trace. Ally digs into all the dark secrets of the Hawthorne family’s past, but what she discovers may cost her more than her ...

A true crime podcast thriller about obsession, vanished evidence, and deadly secrets in the woods. Jenna Dalton thought co-hosting a true crime podcast with legendary investigator Grant Langley would be her career breakthrough. Instead, it pulls her into a cold case disappearance that refuses to stay buried. Ten years ago, college student Lacey Bell vanished in the woods. Her final voice recording—panicked, breathless, unmistakably afraid—was captured just before she disappeared. Now, Jenna is tasked with re-examining the evidence behind one of the most disturbing unsolved missing ...

Two strangers. One night. A secret that binds them. Nicole Brennan spent nearly eighteen years believing justice had been served. As a prosecutor, she put serial rapist Christian Ivanov behind bars for what should have been life. But when hidden corruption overturns the conviction, Ivanov walks free—and begins stalking Nicole's seventeen-year-old daughter. The police won't help. The courts have failed. And Ivanov has made his intentions terrifyingly clear. So Nicole does the unthinkable. James Cortez has dedicated his life to helping survivors of trauma. But when his young client Tyler ...

A MUDDY BOOT. A DEAD HUSBAND. A NIGHTMARE THAT WON'T END. Claire knows exactly how her husband died. Not with a weapon, but with five words spoken in a kitchen doorway. The guilt is her penance. Three years of it. Fresh flowers at a backyard stone. Careful management of her own unraveling. Then the boot appears on her doorstep. Muddy. Worn. Identical to the one David lost the night he died. The one she sealed away herself, years ago. Sitting center-stage on the welcome mat, toe pointed at the door, laces knotted in David's specific double knot. Someone has been inside her house. Now a new ...

Nine months. That's all they needed from her. She didn't ask what came after. Megan Cole took the surrogacy job because she was desperate. $150,000 to carry a baby for the Ashfords, a connected and wealthy political family. Live on their estate. Follow their rules. Deliver the child and then disappear. But there are rooms that are off-limits. Questions no one will answer. And the Ashford's young daughter, Lily, mysteriously stopped appearing in photographs years ago. By the time Megan understands what the Ashfords are really planning—and why they chose her—they won't let her leave. The ...