Ariel Price wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone-- no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can't fully answer: What exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her along on his business trip? Who would want to harm him? And why does Ariel know so little about her new-- much younger-- husband? The...

"Alex Prevost - kidnapped and suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny cage - is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her first? As diminutive Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his band of talented, eccentric detectives uncover the details of the young woman's singular history, they are forced to acknowledge that she is no ordinary victim. She is beautiful,...

Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.

When the daughter of a prominent New York psychiatrist is kidnapped, his only hope for her safe return is to pry a 6-digit number from the memory of a troubled teenage girl--and time is running out.

When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.

Jerry, a low-rent mob bagman, is dumped by his girlfriend Samantha when he takes on a new assignment instead of going straight as he promised. As Jerry crosses the border to collect a cursed antique pistol, Samantha heads to Vegas to forget him until mob hitman Leroy takes her hostage in an attempt to focus Jerry's attention on his job.

In April 1990, Jessica Doyle's ex-husband kidnapped their children and took them to Iran. Getting no help from the police, Interpol, or the State Department, Jessica went to Iran with a daring plan to rescue her children.

"Marshall Everett has traveled a twisting, perilous road from the jungles of South America to the streets of Paris. As an undercover DEA agent, Marshall penetrated a powerful cartel and became the trusted right-hand man of a ruthless drug lord. The price he paid was devastating, costing him everything--and everyone--he loved. Back in the U.S., on temporary assignment to the Secret Service, on the presidential detail, Marshall performs an act of heroism...

Three bad men rob a bank and, with the authorities on their trail, head for the Colorado border. A mile from the border they find a dying man whose wife has been kidnapped by a gang of outlaws. Now they must decide what to do.

The Electroclan embarks on a daring rescue mission when Michael Vey goes missing in this final volume of the series.