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Ever since Steph’s husband walked out after a 30-year marriage, home hasn’t felt like a safe haven. Her daughter Bea thinks she’s imagining things. But Steph knows that the noises in the night, the open windows she knows she left closed, the strange smell in the kitchen - none of it feels right.

Rooms That Remember Light is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory, tenderness, and the quiet rituals that keep us alive through the night. In a nameless city hotel, a solitary night clerk tends the lost and found—not just of objects, but of human moments. Each chapter unfolds through a single forgotten item: a brass key, a disposable camera, a child’s red sock, a cracked snow globe. As he records these fragments, he begins to uncover something luminous beneath the ordinary—the way grief softens into gentleness, and how even the smallest acts of care can restore what time tried to erase.

Ever since her husband’s death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica Shelton. She can’t sleep, can’t work, and can’t bear to touch her beautiful baby girl. Her emotional state is whispering lies in Veronica’s ear: You’re a bad mother. But not everything can be reasoned away by Veronica’s despair. Can it? After all, the break-in at her house happened. The disturbing sketches she found in her studio are real. So is the fear for her daughter’s safety — especially when Veronica comes home to a silent nursery and a missing baby.

When seventeen-year-old Erich Hofmann takes his own life in 1969, his younger brother asks to be called by the dead boy's name. Already deeply affected by years of separation and darkly comical disarray, his mother, father, and older sister agree to the request, setting in motion an unspoken conspiracy to keep Erich alive by sacrificing the younger child to his memory.

When 28-year-old Nina Hale arrives at the eerie Hale House boarding home following her release from a psychiatric facility, she seeks peace. Instead, she finds whispers in the vents, mirrors that move, and a room across the hall that’s always locked. The landlady insists it’s just storage. The tenants say nothing. But the house has its own way of revealing secrets—and Nina’s past is buried in its walls.

A few hours in a sterile waiting room nothing more. But when hours turn into days, and no one seems to leave through the door labeled “ASSESSMENT,” Simon begins to unravel. Haunted by the memory of his brother Tommy, who died institutionalized, Simon begins to suspect this room isn’t just part of the system. It is the system. And the longer he waits, the more he forgets what he was ever waiting for.

Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his life, and their harmonious duo soon becomes a trio with the birth of their beloved daughter, Lisa. Paris, today. After Liv's accident, Stan returns to France surrounded by darkness, no longer able to compose.

Anne wakes up in a psychiatric hospital with no idea how long she's been there--only that something broke inside her. Days blur into each other in a haze of group therapy sessions, bland meals, and the quiet ache of missing home.

Zoey doesn't remember anything about last night. But she knows something went badly wrong. For she is no longer in New York. She's woken up in the desert, in a white building she doesn't recognise, and she's alone. When she discovers she's been admitted to The Sanctuary, a discreet, mysterious, isolated refuge from normal life, to avoid jail, she is stunned. She knows she has secrets, troubles, but she thought she had everything under control. But as she spends more time with other residents, she begins to open up about what she's running from.

Ben Cahill’s life is an alcohol-saturated mess. After an insincere effort in a rehab facility, he is alienated from his family, out of work, and determined to continue his habit. To make matters worse, he finds himself on a tour of Israel, along with, as he calls them, a bunch of Holy Rollers. As the trip progresses, Ben experiences the Holy Land’s major historical sites and is exposed to God’s word. Along the way, Ben becomes embroiled in a spiritual war. He also begins a different journey, one that leads him to redemption and a place in God’s family.

The discovery of her dead mother's diary uncovers a terrible family secret, and Maddie must now play a dangerous game if she is to find her brother and protect the life of her unborn child.

Ray Shepard is a wealthy architect who has mystified his friends by marrying Evelyn, a woman who works at a nail salon. Evelyn, in turn, hides a secret past about her former life in the circus, her ex-husband's mysterious death, and the colorful tattoos she carefully conceals under her clothes. When Evelyn starts to cave under the pressure of living in Ray's rarified world, she suggests they take in Ingrid, a 16-year-old girl with blue hair, a pet iguana, and no place to stay for the summer.

Home is where the nightmare is. The number one international best seller everyone can't stop talking about. Beautiful double room to let to single person. Lisa, a troubled young woman with a past, can’t believe her luck when she finds a beautiful room to rent in a large house. The live-in owners are a kind and welcoming couple. Everything is fine until she finds a suicide note hidden in her room. But when the couple insist this man didn’t exist and that Lisa is their first tenant, Lisa begins to doubt herself.

This audiobook has nine standalone tales to choose from. Everything from strange and harrowing to endings that pull at your heartstrings.

Hostage Jessica would appear to have everything: money, a devoted husband, a lively son and a fulfilling career. But her life takes a nasty turn when she is kidnapped and trapped in a room by three thugs demanding a huge ransom from her rich father. In a bid to escape, she cuts a hole in the bedroom floor with a knife. From there, Jess spies upon her kidnappers as they go about their everyday business. That’s when their hostage starts playing psychological games with them. That’s when her spying pulls her into a dangerous mind game with her abductors.

Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest childhood friend, Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life of Glorette's 22-year-old son - and Fantine's godson - Victor.

Marc Diodato is living in New Jersey as a wealthy real estate developer when a devastating health diagnosis alters the course of his life. In an effort to escape his new reality, he leaves everything behind and flees to Rome, which unwittingly sets him on a collision course with the very demons he is so desperately trying to outrun. After surviving a near-death experience, Marc, a staunch atheist, is forced to grapple with the fundamental mysteries of the human condition, the nature of suffering and redemption, and the struggle between faith and nihilism.

Life is a puzzle just waiting to be solved - that's how Reya, a young woman with a penchant for solving complex puzzles, sees it. Reya's life is governed by routine; a roadmap of rules from what foods she eats to what clothes she wears. Most of her time is spent working on her online challenge forum, "The Puzzler". An agoraphobe with obsessive compulsive disorder who hasn’t had sight of the outside world in over six years, Reya views her own symptoms as just another puzzle to be solved.

Claire believes that she is just in for a routine mental health weekend to make sure she is doing good with her new medications. Her life is going well, and she has a lot to be thankful for. After she is inside, things take a turn for the worse. After two days, in the third room on the left, a body is found. There is a killer on the loose inside the mental facility. Little does Claire know, there was a similar killing style in the same hospital exactly ten years earlier. No one can be trusted in the facility until the person who is caught.

Jo moves into a gothic manor, nursing a broken heart. Immediately, the house reveals an epic tragedy of the past, causing her home to become infamous in her smallish' harbor town. Youtubers record it, and Jo opens it to the public. She is resilient; and hopes the guests are too, as they visit the house that holds the terror of, The Cold Room!