Showing results for "Maria" in Psychological

This collection contains Book 1 - Undercurrents, Book 2 – Drowned Voices, and Book 3 – Emergence.

'A rare novel.' - S. HAREESH 'A must-read!' - DAISY ROCKWELL Following the death of her grandfather, Maria has stopped speaking - not because she can't, but because she doesn't want to. Now in a psychiatric hospital, as she begins the process of 'reconnecting with reality', Maria recalls her...

The moment she sees Caitlyn, wearing her ‘bride-to-be’ sash and brimming with excitement, it hits her. She hates Caitlyn. She knows who she is – what she’s really hiding. And the temptation to do something about it is too strong to resist… It sickens me, the way they all think she’s so perfect. I plaster a fake smile on my face – all I have to do is pretend I’m enjoying the next few days. It shouldn’t be so hard. After all, I’ve been lying for years.

Beautiful, bright-eyed Michelle Jackson, a loving wife and mother, has been killed. Her husband Paul is accused of murdering her. Their little girl Emily, numb with grief, is refusing to speak. You’ll hate Paul for what he’s done. Everyone said they were the perfect couple, always holding hands. They did everything together. But when you hear about their whispered arguments and the terrible lies they both told, you’ll be certain Paul is guilty. But everything you think you know is wrong. After all, behind closed doors every marriage has secrets. And some are deadlier than others.

Every time I turn the corner towards home, I yearn for Ed to have returned. But he’s not coming back. The man I thought was my forever has been living a lie with me since the moment we met. I’m sick of hearing his voicemail message. I’m even more sick of the unanswered texts. He’s left me completely in the dark and I can’t even give our kids an answer to their never-ending question, ‘When’s Daddy coming back?’

As I stand outside the registry office with my husband-to-be, Hugh, I can tell something isn’t right. He won’t speak to me, he won’t even look at me and it’s almost making me have second thoughts. Almost. Despite the feeling in my gut, I’m sure I’m doing the right thing. After all I’ve been through in the last year—the death of my parents, and my partner of ten years walking out, I deserve this chance of a new start. I can’t return to my lonely life—I don’t want to be alone again.

Zwei Freunde, ein Traum – und ein Schicksalsschlag, der alles verändert. Als die beiden Freunde Tobias und Florian eine Vermittlung zwischen Hundeliebhabern gründen, träumen sie von Selbstständigkeit, Investoren und einem sorgenfreien Leben. Vielleicht will Tobias dann sogar in die Familienplanung mit seiner Frau Katharina starten. Doch als er nach einem Unfall ins Koma fällt, steht nicht nur das Unternehmen auf dem Spiel, sondern auch seine Freundschaft zu Florian und seine Ehe.

In the midst of a sea of holidaymakers, I find myself the lone outsider – no companion, no luggage. An enigma among the carefree crowd. I wonder what they’d do if they knew who I am. Who I really am… What is Liz running away from? Who is this woman my father married? Did he have any idea of what she was capable of? My gaze fixates on the once-familiar house that now feels like a distant memory. I can hardly believe how much my life has changed and that Liz, the woman who puts the word wicked into stepmother has completely vanished.

Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year, or when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges.

As I walk into the pine-scented air of my seaside childhood home, gripping my husband Neil’s hand tight, I have a brief moment of hope. Maybe this Christmas will be different — for once my family might get on fueled by mulled wine and festive cheer. But the sound of happy carols are replaced by my older sister Christy’s over-loud laugh and slurred words. Rebecca, my younger sister, stalks out of the room as soon as I enter, as though I’m the Grinch here to steal Christmas. And their husbands, brash and arrogant, slap Neil’s back in a way that promises torment rather than welcome.

Ina lever ett ensamt liv som hemmasittare i Stockholms innerstad. En morgon upptäcker hon att alla köksluckor står öppna. Ina antar att hon går i sömnen, något hon som barn ofta hamnade i trubbel för. Hon gömmer allt hon kan skada sig på, och nyckeln så att hon inte kan ta sig ut. Men anledningen till att det händer allt fler underliga saker hemma hos Ina har inget med sömngång att göra, utan med att en inbrottstjuv gömmer sig i klädkammaren. Han heter Michael, och har kommit in via en byggnadsställning samma dag som den togs ner.

Ten years ago, David and Dawn Michaels purchased a “Fixer Upper” mobile home in Shady Lane, a fifty-five plus community. It was peaceful living until the day new neighbors moved in three homes away, bringing with them lies, deceit and…death. This is a true story of a couple who got caught up in the twisted tangled mind of a narcissistic pathological liar that changed their lives forever.

All I want is get back to normal. Whatever ‘normal’ is these days. After all, our family will be scarred forever after everything that’s happened. My sister-in-law falling prey to the serial killer that stalked our usual peaceful town is something I’ll never get over. But equally, I’m beyond relieved that my husband has been exonerated of involvement in any of the women’s deaths. Our nightmare is finally over. Or is it?

When David and Elizabeth fell in love, they discovered something even deeper than their passion for each other—the power of music to heal, inspire, and connect souls. Determined to share this magic, they founded Musico, a music school where melodies become life-changing journeys. They prove that music is more than notes on a page. It’s a language of the heart, a force that breaks barriers, mends wounds, and turns strangers into family.

Cuando los sueños comienzan a sentirse más reales que la vigilia… es hora de cruzar el umbral.Kamyl Kaplan nunca imaginó que una simple piedra negra pudiera cambiar el rumbo de su vida. Lo que comienza como una visita a la casa de su tía en la selva venezolana pronto se transforma en una travesía hacia lo desconocido, donde los límites entre los sueños y la realidad empiezan a desdibujarse. A medida que sus sentidos se afinan y su mundo interior se expande, Kamyl descubre que sus emociones no son solo reacciones… sino puertas.

Montana's most feared outlaw has left his secret lover, Maria, alone in their secluded house deep in the wilds. If he had known that she was pregnant at the time, the Devil might have stayed.

Neil Baggio, fresh off ending the Cappelano case, is called in the middle of the night from his high school. The headmaster, formerly his teacher, asks Neil to come help investigate a student’s mysterious death. What looks to be a suicide will have Neil chasing down the Church, causing scene after scene and flying to Europe to chase one last lead that will live up to the Baggio name.

A desire to get to know the East, to discover the mystifying country of the rising moon, to take off in an attempt to discover new worlds: This is the dream the protagonist is chasing, without ever giving up while facing the greatest hardships. It is a story of a wonderful friendship, which is tainted by fright, desolation, and conflict, yet triumphant in the end over everything.

A literary revelation! Her Body and Other Parties was nominated for the National Book Award and 2017 Kirkus Prize. Based on the book, a series is being made that was announced by the producers to be “a feminist Black Mirror”. It contains eight spicy, boundary-crossing stories about the universal female experience: the relation between sex and power, objectification, the tyranny of the beauty canons, stereotypes, misogyny, and violence.

Some people are born into what may be considered unfortunate circumstances. Of those people there are those that decide they aren't going to follow that way of living. They want their children to have a better life, to be raised with better values.