ᴠᴀʀɪᴀɴ, ᴀ ʙʟɪɴᴅꜰᴜʟʟʏ ᴛʀᴜꜱᴛɪɴɢ ᴛᴇᴇɴ, ʜᴀꜱ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴇ ᴘꜱʏᴄʜᴏʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ ᴍᴀɴɪᴘᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʜɪꜱ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ ɪɴ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱɪꜱᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜʀɢᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴋɪʟʟ. Varian Morris is an average teen with an average girlfriend and a set of average friends. Against the backdrop of 2003, a camping trip turns into a horror game between Varian and two of his friends, Kacey and Padriac. Things turn for the worse when Varian falls down a hill and blacks out only to awaken in an unknown room. Trapped, he's taunted and forced to obey the commands of the person behind a mechanical voice. He's put through trauma, forced to eat the fingers of a dead girl resembling his girlfriend, before he's returned home. While his family are adamant to get him help, his friends Kacey, Padriac, and Mary seemed unbothered by the mental trauma he's gone through. They act strange and his girlfriend has been picking up on it for years. Only now, she's accusing Kacey of being his kidnapper. Varian is horrified and swears it couldn't be true. While trying to piece his life back together, he grapples with the influx of twisted fantasies and desires unleashed by his hellish nights of imprisonment. His relationships begin to fall apart and when he's just starting to get help, he's kidnapped again. [Potential Spoilers] All characters are 18. Puppet stands on its own, but it is the first in a series with an interconnected universe.

{{completed}} ((Possibly my favorite book so far!)) By definition, a sociopath has the following behaviors: superficially charming, manipulative and conning, lack of remorse, shame or guilt, lack of empathy, and ,lastly, incapacity of love. That would be Judeikas for you, a man that attends the Psychological Summer School yearly along with many other students between which Vivien also found himself. Vivien is a guy with a passion for mental disorders so, naturally, he was being more and more intrigued by Judeikas. So what happens when Judeikas turns the tables?

Romani Noor is an aspiring chemist- well, possible ex-chemist, after she can no longer afford the rise in her university tuition fees. Her best friend and sister, Juno, is living across the country with her wife, sending Romani occasional cheques to help her complete her education. However, even with her sisters help she is falling behind on payments. Taking something into her own hands for once in her life, Romani looks for a job. As fate would it have it, Valentine Carter, River Fabiano and Slater Hayashi are looking to take on an employee in their bakery, whilst they practice their... extra-curricular activities... Sweet Romani thinks she's walking into a simple job of cakes and cookies, but she fails to predict the web of obsession, lust and love she's getting herself tangled in.