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"Even good people are drawn to do evil things ... Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent to prison but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice--and killed him in cold blood. Now Rain is living the perfect suburban life,...
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"On the way home to Utah to see her sick mother, college student Darby Thorne is stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the Colorado Rockies. With roads impassable, she's forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop with no cell phone reception. Inside are asome vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers. Desparate to find a signal to call home, the exhausted young art student goes back out into the storm...
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Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen, in order to rescue Lindsey, one of his trainees, who was kidnapped...
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Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation.
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"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will." One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the...
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It seemed like a brilliant idea. Three mismatched bad guys--a Palm Beach potted, a Bahamian ex-con, and a Puerto Rican gardener turned mob enforcer--get together to carry out the perfect crime: kidnap retired Miami bookie Harry Arno and let him pay the ransom with his ill-gotten wealth. He can't go to the cops later. No one will miss him. It's perfect. Or so they figure. They figure wrong. Harry's former girlfriend, ex-topless dancer Joyce Patton,...
7) The cellar
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Cellar volume 01
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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When enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on his head and target his family, Nate McClusky takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.
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"Maggie Kincaid left the FBI two years ago and didn't look back ... until now. A senator's daughter has been abducted, and the nightmare set in motion isn't just familiar to Maggie, it's personal. She'll need all the help she can get to bring Kayla Thebes home alive--even if that help comes from a hot-as-hell ex-soldier who plays by his own rules..."--Page 4 of cover.
10) Got the look
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FBI agent Andie Henning is tracking a ruthless kidnapper plaguing South Florida. He has slipped through her net at every turn. This time he's taken the wife of one of the state's richest horse breeders and is asking for a $1 million ransom. The stakes go up when Andie finds the woman - dead. Enter Jack Swyteck.
11) The chain
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"You are a parent. Your phone rings. You answer it. It's a panicked stranger. They tell you that they have kidnapped your child. The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. Their child will be released only when you kidnap a new child. Your child will be released only when, after you kidnap the new child, that child's parents kidnap yet another child. And most importantly, the stranger explains,...
12) Ransom
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Five teenaged students are kidnapped from their school bus and held for ransom by two men who have already killed old Mr. Godfrey, their regular bus driver .
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The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in thier small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost -- until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods... A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrity. It's a triumphant story, except for one inconvenient detail: Nicole is still missing... Adapated from back...
14) Stop Me
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Profiler Jasmine Stratford is determined to track down the man who kidnapped her sister sixteen years ago, and she joins forces with Romain Fornier, an ex-cop whose daughter may have been kidnapped and murdered by the same man.
15) Red flags
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Locard Institute volume 1
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"When D.C. crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Carr is called to investigate the heartrending case of a missing baby, she's shocked to discover that the child's mother is her own cousin. Close during their impoverished childhoods, Ellie and Rebecca eventually drifted apart. Rebecca is now half of a Washington power couple, and she and her wealthy lobbyist husband, Hunter, have been living a charmed life in an opulent mansion -- until their infant son is...
16) After I'm gone
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When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative--if not all legal--businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband--or his money--might...
17) The abduction
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Days before a presidential election, someone abducts the granddaughter of the Republican candidate. For Attorney General Allison Leahy, the Democratic candidate, it is an opportunity to shine, or is it? What if the FBI discovers her party organized the abduction? A tale of political skullduggery.
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Reeve LeClaire novels volume 1
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"Ten years ago, [Reeve LeClaire] was kidnapped and held captive. After a lucky escape, she's spent the last six years trying to rebuild her life, a recovery thanks in large part to her indispensable therapist, Dr. Ezra Lerner. But when he asks her to help another girl rescued from a similar situation, Reeve realizes she may not simply need to mentor this young victim--she may be the only one who can protect her from a cunning predator who is still...
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The beautiful blonde armed with a Beretta is someone FBI agent Austin Duran knows only too well. Rosalie McKinnon was engaged to his best friend, who died on a mission gone south. But the desperate mother isn't there for revenge.. she's looking for her abducted daughter. And she just blew his cover.--Cover.
20) The hunted
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"It's 1991, the Soviet Union hs just collapsed, and a new democratic government is beginning to emerge. Alex Konevitch, who was thrown out of Moscow University in 1987 for indulging his entrepreneurial spirit, is now worth $300 million and is a major financial supporter of the new government. In a country where greed and corruption run rampant, he is on track to become both Russia's wealthiest man and biggest target. Then, one by one, the top executives...
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