Kidnapping Mystery

Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake’s unlikeliest private investigators - disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldn’t have come at a worse time. Two years ago, a false accusation robbed him of his career, his reputation, and most importantly, his family. But now, Lillian, the daughter he barely knows, is coming to stay in his ramshackle cottage by the lake.

Haunted by her brother's brutal murder, FBI Agent Sidney Stone races against time to unravel a chilling wave of child abductions that mirror her own traumatic past, pushing her to the brink of sanity as she confronts both ruthless criminals and her own demons. FBI Agent Sidney Stone has dedicated her life to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, determined to prevent others from suffering the same fate as her kid brother, Ben. They were abducted when she was 16 and he seven. He was killed while she was let go.

Dash Bellmont swore never to fall in love again; one broken heart was more than enough. He didn’t expect someone to challenge that promise. When he receives an email threatening his brother, he decides to use his special skills to find the bastard who sent it. After all, he did get his Delta Force nickname, Rebel, by not following the rules. Sometimes, that’s what it took to save lives. Evie was the definition of the girl next door... until her sister went missing. Now, she spends her time with drug addicts and the homeless, hoping to hear about anything that might lead to her sister. ...

Sixteen-year-old Patricia Columbo began working for pharmacist Frank DeLuca, a married father of five, in the 1970s, and the two soon entered into a sexual relationship. Against her father's wishes, Patricia and Frank moved in together. Then, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Patricia's father was brutally murdered, along with her mother and 13-year-old brother. Police were suspicious of Patricia's strange behavior after the bodies were discovered, and following their investigation, they arrested both Patricia and Frank.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… So how is the grump I hooked up with there now my neighbor and my fake boyfriend? Just as I’m picking myself up from a nasty breakup—I literally run into him. Myles’s rock-hard body slams into me, knocking me senseless. Seeing him later at the hotel bar, I feel compelled to apologize. The apology leads us straight up to his room for one of the hottest—and most infuriating—nights of my life. The odds he’d be moving in next door to me in Long Beach weeks later are nil. Yet here he is, along with his adorable daughter. He’s telling me ...

After revealing a big secret, Calamity James is on the outs with the one person she can always rely on: her sister. As the Red River Founders Celebration approaches, descendants of the town’s original settlers are mysteriously targeted for murder, and Cal hunts down a ghost with a grudge.

In the busy town center of Canterbury, a woman and a young boy are snatched from the street. A few miles away, a man stands on the edge of a viaduct ready to throw himself off. Sergeant Shaun Carter, a police negotiator, is trying to talk him down, but he dare not get too close. This man is the only person who has the answers needed to find the missing. These two events will have consequences for everyone they touch. And Shaun Carter is forced to make heartbreaking choices as he faces a vicious criminal network. As the situation spirals out of control, Shaun asks for help.

Once the most cunning luxury-car thief in the game, Ava Frost gladly gave it all up to become the wife of a successful Norfolk, Virginia, businessman, and raise their two children in better circumstances than she ever knew. But when the children are abducted—and held for a two-million-dollar ransom—Ava is stunned to discover her husband’s bad deals have drained their fortune. Determined, she pursues her best, and toughest, option: Her ex-boyfriend, the mastermind behind the South’s biggest car theft ring, offers her a chance to gain the money.

An Eclectic Mix of 7 short stories: They say that Silence is Golden, so, when it’s time to read your book, that is just what you want, some peace and quiet to absorb each and every word, each line, each sentence, and each paragraph, and each chapter until the very end. That is exactly why the code in all libraries is silence please. Of course, most books are of one particular subject from beginning to end. There is also the saying that Variety is the Spice of Life, and this book is exactly that. Seven short stories in one book for the reader to indulge in, and seven different scenarios. ...

It's Emma’s thirtieth birthday…and it might just be her last! For political journalist Emma Jane Lewis, Captain Nathan James Oliver, code name, Outlaw, represents exactly the kind of man she never wanted to date. Too stubborn, too muscled for her taste. When he and his buddies join her and her girlfriends at a London night club, it gets awkward fast. But something about him draws her in and makes her heart race, despite their rocky start. It's her birthday, after all, and he was handsome and attentive. What could be the harm in enjoying his company? When Nate meets Emma, the attraction ...

A child taken in the middle of the night from her bed while her parents slept with no signs of break-in has sent the city of Seattle into a panic. Seasoned Detectives Jim North and Kerry Martin are assigned to recover the missing girl, but the deeper Jim and Kerry follow the case, they’ll discover more questions than answers.

Mina Rose Cabot, age thirteen, disappeared walking home from soccer practice in Devon, Pennsylvania. Eight months later her body is found in Battery Park, New York, speared through the chest by a three-inch piece of wood. Lt. Eve Dallas knows that whoever took Mina is responsible for her death. But who took her and where has Mina been for eight long months?

Convicted felon Alvin Cooper was eventually granted work furlough from prison. While at a local bank, he sees a picture of the manager's family. He becomes obsessed with the manager's teenage daughter and kidnaps her.

Amazon Best-Selling Author Bronze Medal-winning writer--Global Book Awards In a quest to find the keys to a legendary queendom, will one fierce woman stumble on a hidden treasure or into an early grave? Sheba Bentley is thirsty for a breakthrough. On the cusp of discovering the capital of her namesake's lost empire, the NSA code breaker doesn't have time for a side mission chasing terrorists. But her world implodes when she receives a ciphered warning letter apparently written by the father she thought was dead. Enlisting her Army captain fiance along with a Romani supplying inside ...

Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie has a lot of old girlfriends, but only one went on to marry the current governor of the state of Minnesota. And only one is calling him with a desperate request to meet in secret. First Lady Lindsay Barrett is carrying an anonymous e-mail that contains the makings of an ugly rumor about her husband, the man about to run for higher office - perhaps even the highest office. Someone says they have evidence that Jack Barrett killed his high school sweetheart. Lindsay says it’s an outright lie, but the truth lies buried decades in the past.

When DI Adam Fawley is assigned a sexual assault case filed by an Oxford student against a tenured professor, he expects the facts to match up with the far too many previous reports he’s investigated time and again. But neither he nor anyone on his team imagined the victim would turn out to be a male rugby player accusing one of the university’s most respected female professors.

It’s been months since King and Slater faced true physical adversity. Now, they’re back in the depths of hell. A botched attempt to seize control of the Presidency by a brainwashed intelligence asset leads to the exposure of King and Slater’s location. The shadow world from which they fled has them in their sights, and they’re furious. Going rogue is the gravest sin - wetwork operators aren't afforded the leniency of leaving whenever they please. Examples must be made. The hunters are unleashed.

Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips.

Former CIA officer James ‘Wes’ Wesley paid the ultimate price for his patriotism when he was locked up in a French jail for an anti-terror operation gone wrong--abandoned by the Agency he served, shunned by his colleagues and friends, cut off from his family. Now he is shattered by the news that his ex-wife, Rachel, a State Department analyst, has been killed in a terrorist attack in Spain. He also discovers that his young son, Ethan, is missing. But Wes didn’t know he had a son--until now. Why was Rachel in Spain? And why did she keep his son secret from him?

Book #2 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series A sheriff in Southern Oregon taps Jab to find a kidnapped charter school teacher. It’s not enough for Jab to track the teenage killers. He must deal with a resentful deputy, his frightened girlfriend, and a town deep in mourning. But when Jab finds her body too late, it’s up to Jab and the sheriff’s department to stop the Termite Brigade—teen killers swearing vengeance on anyone standing in their way!