Psychological Thriller Series
Every family has secrets—dark ones, twisted ones, ones they hide. The Ivory family is no different. From the outside of their gated estate, one would see a beautiful, wealthy family. But the more perfect they seem, it only shows how many imperfections they are trying to bury. When Demi Rao, a young woman is at her wits’ end and on the run from escaping her captor, she comes across an employment ad from the Ivory family, looking for someone to help maintain their elaborate estate. Although the ad is strange with meticulous directions to wear all-white, no makeup and speak quietly, Demi applies. With no choices, Demi gets and accepts the job and when she does, she quickly realizes she’s not there to clean, she’s there for a purpose. They picked her. They chose her. They’ve always known her. Behind the doors of the pristine estate lies secrets, a lethal human experiment and Demi’s entire life planned out for her. The Ivory’s have picked a favorite girl. And it might just be her. This novel is a dark thriller that has content that may be intense for some. Please check the author's website for warnings and/or message her at @monicaaryaauthor (social media) or monicaaryaauthor@gmail.com if you have questions or concerns. Praise for THE FAVORITE GIRL "This book is the love child of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter. Pretty Girls and Sharp Objects." - Kori, Thrillbythepage
What To Expect: Dark psychological and medical thriller. She becomes the housekeeper for a deranged surgeon who is running a secret and twisted business and medical experiment.
Welcome to Ivory Island where all of your deepest and darkest desires can come true… In life, it’s always the goal to be the most loved, respected and adored. The favorite, if you will. However, Demi Rao has realized that being the favorite isn’t always a dream come true. Being the favorite can be your worst nightmare. After barely escaping, Demi finds herself at the gorgeous, one-of-a-kind, exclusive resort run by her former psychopath boss, Dr. Ivory’s younger brother. As she begins her new job, she knows that the ocean-views and amenities are all a façade. The resort has an all-inclusive experience not limited to food and drinks but rather a sick and twisted way to fulfill everyone’s wildest dreams and fantasies without judgement. Couples are carefully selected and invited, some go missing, and others are found tied up… Demi can’t live with herself if she doesn’t find a way to end the Ivory family once and for all. The only problem is she may go from the favorite girl to the caged girl if she’s caught. And once you’re in the gilded cage, you’ll never get out.
Releasing 5/20
What To Expect: dark psychological thriller. Takes places on a private island and exclusive resort. The sequel to The Favorite Girl. For fans of The White Lotus but want something darker.
Standalone Thrillers
What happens when our dreams and reality begin to blur together? Serena Indigo has the perfect life. A handsome husband, a beautiful daughter, a gated home, and a rewarding career as a physician, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. She’s helped hundreds of people complete their families, which means all that more to her considering the lengths she went through for her own child. She even has a private practice with her best friend, Parker Sully, who is easy on the eyes and kinder on the soul. Sure, she sets herself to extremely high standards and is obsessed with perfection—which triggers a darkness of her own—but she’s managed to keep it under control. She’s always in control. When suspicious things start to unravel, Serena begins to lose control over the perfection she thrives off of. Her husband breaks the vows he promised her, her neighbors aren’t the sweet family next door and her perfect life seems more like the perfect lie. Her world crumbles in front of her eyes as she tries to piece it all together, but what happens when we look into our reflection and the pain of our past haunts our present? After all, you can’t piece together a broken mirror and expect to see the same reflection…
What To Expect: A ‘mind game’ psychological thriller. “The perfect life is a perfect lie.
She’s being watched when she doesn’t want to be seen… When former beauty pageant queen, Sage Miller, leaves her life in New York City for a quiet life in the suburbs down South, she thinks she has finally found solace from her dark past riddled with bad habits. Sage, now married and a stay-at-home mom of two, is learning that you can have it all… just not at the same time, and not unless you get creative. Replacing her tiara with a messy bun and late-night parties with rocking her young children to sleep, her new life behind a white picket fence seems like the cleanest place to hide her dirtiest secrets. A slew of murders, suspicious events, and devious affairs begin to unravel in the sweet suburbs Sage calls home, and she realizes that something far more sinister is happening. She thought she enjoyed being watched and wanted, but now someone is watching her when she doesn’t want to be seen. Someone is lurking in her shadows, obsessing over her, and digging up secrets she thought were buried. The only problem with secrets is once someone knows them, they will either protect you fiercely or fiercely destroy you. After receiving startling images and messages, Sage quickly realizes that once you’re a sinner, no amount of repentance can make you a saint. Roses are red, violets are blue, someone is dead, let’s hope it’s not you…
What To Expect: Stalker and obsession thriller. Spicy romantic thriller but no happily ever after. For fans of Desperate Housewives, Real Housewives and You.
Happily ever after isn't guaranteed… Brooke Montgomery has struggled ever since her parents died in a tragic accident, leaving her alone and heartbroken at a young age. Working double shifts just to pay the mounting bills was a cycle she seemingly couldn’t break from. Until she met him... The charming and handsome surgeon, Noah Wimberly. Dr. Noah Wimberly’s first wife, Riya, mysteriously died, yet her body was never found. When Noah meets Brooke, who has an uncanny resemblance to Riya, Noah knows he can’t let Brooke go. She’s his mid-life crisis. He’s her way out. The only problem is Brooke starts to realize that the tight-knit Laguna Beach society she’s now immersed in has a strange way of protecting its own, and she may need to unearth deadly secrets before it’s too late. The next place after the honeymoon doesn’t seem like it’ll be home. Will she be able to handle what’s coming for the next Mrs. Wimberly, for better or for worse?
What To Expect: Dark, medical and psychological thriller. “The man of her dreams is really from her nightmares.
Our marriage started out as a scandal. He was my professor, and I was his student. But every scandal eventually fades. I just didn’t know our love would, too. We had it all—a lake house, two kids, and twenty years of marriage. Except, our marriage was no longer exciting. We scheduled intimacy, ate meals in silence, and became strangers. Our kids went off to college, and we were now empty-nesters, trying to reconnect. But my husband, a psychology professor and thriller novelist, had other plans. Perhaps writing a fictional novel had him living in a false reality? Perhaps he was having a mid-life crisis? He didn’t want to reconnect with me; he just wanted to replace me. Worst of all, the girl he was having an affair with was our son’s girlfriend. Betraying me was one thing, but betraying our son…? I had to make him pay. So, I hired my son’s girlfriend to lure my husband and to stay away from my son. But soon after, bodies began to turn up, the truth started to blur, and lies began to grow. My husband swore I was overreacting and nothing is as it seems, but I don’t believe him.
What To Expect: Revenge and twisted thriller. Professor and college student.
Bestselling author, Monica Arya flips the script with this revenge and obsession based thriller for fans of Dexter and You. Living in the shadows for years means you know just how dark things can be. She’s married to the man who should have been mine. She’s raising the child who should have been mine. She’s living the life that should have been mine. Her family destroyed and tormented me. They thought they had gotten rid of me like mere trash. But here I am. Lurking in the shadows. Watching their every move, plotting and planning. They thought they were powerful. But here I am. I may have to lie my way into their perfectly tailored lives, weaving and snaking myself into their safe haven. All I know is this isn’t a simple white lie I’ll have to tell. I’ll have to tell a dark one, a destructive one… A navy lie. And when I do, I’ll take back everything that is mine.
What To Expect: Revenge and obsession thriller. For fans of Dexter x You but with a female version.
She left our home in a wedding dress and returned in an urn. My parents were burdened with two baby girls. Yes, burdened. A son would have been a blessing, but a daughter was only an expense. They didn’t have a legacy to carry on their name—they’d have to pay a dowry and fund an elaborate wedding. I was forced to marry a stranger, though my parents assured me I’d learn to love him. But worst of all, the man I’m being forced to marry is my dead sister’s husband. She left our home in a wedding dress and came back home in an urn. But once I moved into the tattered estate with my new husband, I realized maybe my sister wasn’t dead. Maybe she’s still here after all…
What To Expect: Paranormal thriller with a haunted house, spirit/ghost. She is forced to marry her dead sister’s husband.
Romance
Damien Sophie Shah was just like a decadent dessert. Indulgent, overly sweet, beautiful and extremely bad for you. Scratch that-bad for me. Her big brown, doe eyes and shiny raven hair had me begging for a taste. But just like something you crave, as much as it’s a desire you’re dying for it also might just kill you. This gorgeous spitfire had me losing self-control faster than ever but Sophie was completely off limits. Not only was she much younger than me, she’s also my best friend’s little sister. Sophie Damien Moretti was my crime and my punishment. He was everything I didn’t need, but everything I wanted. He makes people disappear and I’m sure he wishes he could do the same to me. Except he’s stuck with me, because I’m his best friend’s little sister and have no intention of running away from what I know I want. Even if it destroys me. Damien Moretti is a thief. He will steal your heart, then soul and never apologize about it. Because, the way he looks at me I know, it’s only a matter of time before he takes my heart and turns it into ashes. I already know it’s not an if, but a when love breaks us.
What To Expect: Dark psychological and medical thriller. She becomes the housekeeper for a deranged surgeon who is running a secret and twisted business and medical experiment.
Piper Rule number 1: Do not fall in love with me. I thought it would be as simple as that. We all know the story. Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. They fall in love and live happily ever after. Except, after my ‘so-called’ first love shredded my heart to pieces, I gave up on the idea of true love entirely. Until the small, crumpled-up piece of paper rolled in front of me… Will you tell me your name? Three boxes lined the top of the note he slid over to me. I should have checked no. I should have let Newport University’s star football player Roman Calloway live his perfect life with his perfect family and friends. But I checked maybe. Spoiler alert: that really meant yes—and I gave him a whole lot more than just my name. Except I was the ultimate misfit in his world, thanks to the scandal that had branded a Scarlet letter across my chest from my previous college. Besides, I knew guys like him. Big time players on the field and even bigger players off the field. But just like me, he went against his better judgment and fell in love with me. And when we crashed into each other, it created something beautiful. A beautiful mess. Roman Two things I knew with absolute certainty was that I fell for her, hard and fast, and that Piper Rivers was going to eventually break my heart. And I was going to let her.
What To Expect: Dark psychological and medical thriller. She becomes the housekeeper for a deranged surgeon who is running a secret and twisted business and medical experiment.
Dr. Jay Remington, Boston’s most eligible billionaire bachelor. Sexy. Charming. Mysterious. Intelligent. Wealthy. Not only is he unbelievably handsome, but he’s also one of the city's top surgeons with a hefty billion-dollar trust fund to add to his appeal. However, his piercing blue eyes hide more darkness than one could imagine. He swore he’d never fall in love again, not after what happened all those years ago. He’d never be that vulnerable. Until he met her. She changed everything. Could she save him from the darkness of his past? Zara Singh is the epitome of brains and beauty. A new surgery resident physician at the local hospital, she’s not interested in finding love or a prince to battle her dragons. She can slay them on her own, as she has always done. Zara has never even had a boyfriend. That is until she sees him. Drawn to his darkness, their chemistry is undeniable, no matter how much they try to resist one another for reasons that are more similar than they realize. A series of twisted fate brings Jay and Zara together, but can secrets from their past haunt them and wreck any chance of a happily ever after? Some love stories aren’t meant to be, but this one needs to be. Fate brought them together, but will it also tear them apart?
What To Expect: steamy billionaire x medical romance.
