Valentine: 584 books

Jane has been locked up in a high security hospital for killing her children. Well meaning intervention by Dr. Townsend begins to uncover early events in Jane's life. While attending her sister's funeral, Jane escapes and goes back to the Belgian caravan site where the murders took place. She connects...

Synopsis LOSING IT gives an authentic voice to a woman alienated by her madness and by the crimes she has committed. Referencing Plath’s The Bell Jar and the stories of Jean Rhys, the book allows us to enter her internal world, and we are drawn ever more closely into a conflict between sanity and...

Tayler Kent flees London in a blinding snowstorm, hoping to escape the ghosts that haunt his home. Instead, he finds things may have gone from bad to worse when he crashes his car, breaks his ankle, and is forced to take refuge at a medieval monastery now inhabited by the eccentric Charles Hogarth,...

Descended from one of the most ancient aristocratic families of Europe, Erzsebet Bathory bore the psychotic aberrations of centuries of intermarriage. From adolescence she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies, where only the spilling of a woman’s blood could satisfy her urges. By middle age,...

Novella (20k words) Psychological horror / suspense / ghost story - When Layla's professor husband has an opportunity to spend the winter at an old motel in a seaside amusement park resort, she reluctantly agrees to run the pub attached to it while he works on his book. The arcades, food stands, souvenir...

(Novel - 123k words. Love Story, Suspense, Literary - Paperback or eBook) In the 19th century the Monastery of St. Gabriel the Archangel was built on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Maine. From early on there were rumors of strange activity there - tunnels through the cliff used by smugglers, a nun...

The October 2012 issue of the Hugo Award-winning magazine, *Clarkesworld. *This issue features the following stories: "A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones" by Genevieve Valentine, "England under the White Witch" by Theodora Goss and "The Battle of Candle Arc" by Yoon Ha Lee. Non-fiction includes...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from Isabel Yap ("Have You Heard the One About...

“Blending celebrity and international diplomacy in a near-future Paris, Valentine crafts an intimate thriller than unmasks the players in the game.” —Publishers Weekly When Suyana, Face of the recently formed United Amazonia Rainforest Confederation, is secretly meeting Ethan of the United...

Dave has just graduated from college and is looking for a place to live. After a neighbor's dog scares him so much he pees his pants, his landlady (with the help of some diapers) helps him find a whole lot more. This story contains elements of ageplay, regression, infantilism, crossdressing, and domination. While it contains no sex, it is intended for adults.

The first entry of "Dead Heroes Chronicles" series of zombie survival tales. It wasn't the zombies that turned our world to hell. No, the real monsters were the ones with big ambitions on their eyes and nothing to lose. They saw their chance of imposing their wills and they took it,...

Positive. Negative. It's how you look at it. . . . Someone shoves a photo negative into Rowan's hands. She is distracted but, frankly, she has larger problems to worry about. Her brother is dead. Her father has left. Her mother won't get out of bed. She has to take care of her...

A riveting psychological thriller about identity, family, loss, and redemption by critically-acclaimed author Jenny Valentine

The second in a series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. More funny and endearing family stories featuring the the irrepressible 5-year-old IGGY as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo, the ME of...