Domestic Noir

Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.

Mirror, mirror on the wall … Jealousy doesn’t exist in Darby Forester’s vocabulary. Until Caroline, an equally stunning woman, crashes Darby’s perfect fortieth birthday party and reduces her seemingly perfect husband into a horny adolescent in front of the well-wishers. THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET WORSE. Shortly after the last guest leaves, Caroline calls Wyatt. Someone is trying to break into her house—where she’s alone and terrified. Wyatt rides off to the rescue. Darby feels the first brush of fear. Her father was a serial adulterer, abusing her and her sickly mother. Infidelity ...

Money does not buy happiness. Or guarantee HEA. Or keep cheating husbands faithful. Especially when lies, secrets, and suspicions wreak havoc in two marriages. Sophia Leifer, recently married to a man richer than a Saudi sheik, believes she is now safe from a dark secret in her past. Jessica Maguire, high-strung, spoiled, and jealous hates the elegant, stunning Sophia on sight. Because, for the first time ever, Jessica's bragging about her sexy husband sounds hollow. She controls the purse strings; he has to know where he's made his bed. When Sophia miscarries, she longs for comfort from ...

Nunca debió estar en el barco. Cuando las circunstancias chocan con el destino, la aburrida ama de casa Patricia Fisher se encuentra sola en un crucero alrededor del mundo, pero lo que podría haber sido un período tranquilo de reflexión personal pronto se convierte en algo mortal. El cadáver de un ladrón hace pensar en una joya de valor incalculable desaparecida hace tiempo y Patricia fue la última persona que se vio con la víctima. Acusada de su asesinato, debe convertirse en detective para encontrar al verdadero asesino antes de que acabe en la cárcel. ¿Pero la encontrará él ...

I never believed I’d see my daughter again. Until a mysterious girl arrives at my door in the middle of a snowstorm. My five-year-old daughter Riley disappeared from a playground ten years ago, moments after I opened a cryptic letter from what the police believed was a deranged fan. In the aftermath of Riley’s disappearance, I tried to create a safe place for myself. I live alone in a secluded cabin in Montana, writing horror novels and hiking with my dog. Until Miranda knocks on my door, half frozen, telling me an unbelievable story. There is no reason for a young girl to be out in a ...

Most Wanted Felon From the outside looking in, China Daniels lives the life every woman dreams of - nice home, lovely daughter, and a wonderful marriage. But in reality, things could not be further from the truth. At the discovery of a secret that her loving husband has desperately tried to conceal, the truth unleashes a series of events that could not only destroy her family and livelihood, but will make China Daniels a MOST WANTED FELON!

Casey's very first interaction with a male was a brutal one, and it was when she was the age of eleven. Now that she's a young adult, she's never given herself the chance to trust and love anyone, must less a man, due to the scars left open from her past...until Tony. The only problem is, what she thought was trustworthy, loyal and lovable about Tony was actually an obsession that he had for her, and she'd missed all the signs until it was too late.