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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
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When Savannah disappears after arguing with her mom's boyfriend, everyone assumes she ran away. The truth is much worse.
Told in multiple voices, sixteen-year-old Savannah Taylor is abducted after her kung fu class and must figure out how to escape and rescue fellow prisoner Jenny Dowd.
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"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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Alex Rider adventures volume 14
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When Nightshade kidnaps his best friend, teen spy Alex Rider must enter the world of virtual reality gaming where the lines between what's real and what's digital are deliberately being blurred by a ruthless enemy.
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The gripping second book of the chart-topping Emma Holden suspense mystery trilogy. Emma Holden and her friends are trying to move on from the horrific events surrounding Dan's disappearance. But a shocking revelation drags them back into the nightmare and forces them to question everything they once believed to be true. More secrets will be revealed, more lies will be told, and more lives are under threat.
Packed with twists, turns and cliffhangers,
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Winston Greene, a has-been film star, wakes one morning to find his six-year-old granddaughter at his bedside, traumatized, unattended, and gripping onto a thumb drive. She comes bearing video proof that her mother, Win's troubled adult daughter, has been kidnapped by a murderous gang demanding all his movie money for her safe return. But what they don't know is that his movie money is long gone. Unable to go to the police for fear the kidnappers...
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"Danni has seen more in her eight years on this planet than most people see in a lifetime. The sole survivor of a motorway pile-up which took her mother's life, she is now safe and thriving with her adoptive family. Until the day the bad people come knocking. Forcing Danni to face the memories she has done such a good job forgetting . . . Josie's quiet life is dismantled with a knock at the door. When she and her daughter are violently kidnapped,...
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"It begins with a massacre. A crime so brutal and bloody, the local sheriff isn't smart enough to solve it. But when young deputy Dan Caine sees the slaughter for himself--an entire family murdered--he can't let it go. Especially when the eldest daughter is missing. Right there and then, Caine makes a fateful decision: throw away his badge, form a vigilante team, and go after the killers ... There's one problem: Who would be crazy enough to join him?...
11) Lethal ransom
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The carjacking that ended with Kristen Lang running for her life--and her federal judge mother kidnapped--was a nightmare. The ransom, however, is worse: Kristen in exchange for her mother. Deputy US Marshal Nick Sandoval will do almost anything to safely recover the judge--except trade Kristen. But can he shield the woman he's falling for and bring her mother home?
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When Hope Cartwright is kidnapped from her convenient wedding, she should feel outraged. But whisked away by Cyrus Ashkan, the sheikh she s been promised to since birth, Hope feels something far more dangerous desire! Cyrus refuses to ignore his royal duty--he's determined to marry innocent Hope, even if he finds her unsuitable in every way. But secluded together in his opulent desert fortress, their unwanted attraction burns hotter than the sun....
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"Her ex-husband wanted to make her pay... So he kidnapped her child. For fifteen months, Jessica Johnson has searched for her baby daughter. Desperate for answers, she's hired Sierra's Web investigator Brian Powers, hoping he can accomplish what the police couldn't. Her ex-husband, in prison for kidnapping the child, manipulates Jessica in exchange for clues. But as Brian's professional detachment is compromised by his growing feelings for Jessica,...
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"A little girl is missing, and Detective Kaitlyn Two Feathers has promised the child will be back in her mother's arms by Christmas. Her own troubled childhood still shadowing her, Kaitlyn is determined not to fail. When the kidnapper's trail takes her to Aurora, she must work with the local cops. Specifically, the frustratingly appealing Detective Thomas Cavelli. Cavelli's own life is in chaos, the revelation of an unexpected family connection upending...
15) Wild houses
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"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as...
16) Safe as houses
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A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is not quick enough. Suddenly Lisa and her young daughter find themselves held hostage in their own home.
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It only takes a few minutes for her life to be turned upside down… In the blink of an eye, Sylvie's world crumbles when her six-week-old baby, Cally, disappears without a trace. With each passing hour, Sylvie's odds of locating her infant dwindle. Before long, Sylvie's behavior comes under sharp scrutiny from the police and FBI. Even those she trusts most doubt her innocence-her mother, and worst of all, Cally's father, Peter. Desperate to reclaim...
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"Discovering that the creatures and deities of Tagalog myth are real when her mom is kidnapped, Lulu Sinagtala is drawn into a centuries-long war that threatens to throw the whole universe into chaos while trying to save her mom with her newfound powers"--
20) 99 lies
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100 hours volume 2
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Getting kidnapped over spring break was definitely memorable. But now that the surviving hostages are home, they want life to feel normal again: high school, dating, million-dollar galas. But there's no escaping the spotlight--or the truth about the ways they betrayed each other in the jungle. And this time, the real threat isn't kidnappers--it's what the "friends" might do to each other. Told from alternating perspectives, the high-stakes follow-up...
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