A young, ambitious architect inherits a dilapidated historical mansion. As they begin restoration, they find that the house is a living, breathing labyrinth designed by a deranged ancestor. Every alteration they make to the structure results in a deadly, inexplicable shift in the layout, trapping them inside and forcing them to navigate the architect's maddening, lethal logic.

A family moves into a new home and finds an antique, full-length mirror they cannot remove. Over time, the reflection in the mirror begins to show a subtly different version of their lives—happier, wealthier, and more successful. One of the family members finds a way to communicate with their reflection, learning that the mirrored world is real, and the other family is plotting to switch places with them.

In a near-future setting, a new form of digital storage allows people to upload and back up their memories. Mary Cotes, who relies on this technology starts experiencing "glitches"—tiny, crucial memories are missing or replaced with deeply unsettling, foreign recollections. They realize a digital parasite is feeding on the most important parts of their past, leaving them vulnerable to a terrible truth about their own identity.

A struggling actor is cast in a mysterious, unpublished play by a famously reclusive and long-dead playwright. As the small cast rehearses, the lines and stage directions seem to come true in their own lives, culminating in a violent, unavoidable climax that mirrors the play's gruesome finale. They are not merely acting the horror; they are living it, driven by the text itself.

A team of deep-sea miners finds a unique, bioluminescent organism thriving near a thermal vent miles below the surface. This organism secretes a substance with incredible restorative and addictive properties. The miners begin illegally harvesting it, but the longer they stay and the more they take, the more the crushing pressure and the absolute darkness begin to affect their minds, whispering that the ocean is awake, and its "light" is a terrible lure.

A town built on an ancient, forgotten battlefield is plagued by an unusually fertile but disturbing red soil. Anything grown in it—vegetables, flowers, or even animals—is unnaturally large and exhibits a faint, terrible sentience, driven by the trauma and violence soaked into the land. The community finds the only way to appease the soil is by offering it fresh sacrifices.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach.With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in t...

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Terri Osburn comes a bittersweet romance about discovering the past, if only to finally let it go.Author Liza Teller’s new book is something of a mystery. She’s been hired to ghostwrite the memoir of Ray Wallis, an elderly stranger eager to share a very personal and surprising life story. The moment Liza arrives on beautiful Haven Island off the South Carolina coast, she has to ask: Out of all the semi-successful...

When Mika escapes from her fathers closet she doesn't realize the nightmarish journey she will have to make to return home to her mother.

A reclusive sound engineer moves to a remote cabin to work on a difficult project. Soon, they discover that every sound they record is immediately followed by a pocket of perfect, absolute silence—not just an absence of noise, but a terrifying, unnatural void that seems to be growing and consuming the world around them. The engineer realizes the silence isn't a lack of sound, but an entity waiting to engulf everything.

A struggling physicist, Doctor Sarah Ash, accidentally creates a stable pocket universe the size of a teacup on their lab bench. Within days, a civilization begins to develop inside it, and the physicist has to decide whether to intervene as an all-powerful deity or let the tiny world face its own, inevitable energy crisis.