Criminologist Marina Esposito enters a deadly race against time after her house is set on fire, her husband winds up in a coma, and her baby daughter is kidnapped.

When his pregnant wife is kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man.

"Jubilee Rathman is a straight-A student and star soccer goalie destined for Princeton&;until her family is brutally murdered. Twelve years later, she lives in a virtual fortress on Purgatory Bay near Bleak Harbor, plotting revenge on the people she considers responsible."--Amazon.com.

The stressful life of reporter David Harwood turns terrifying when a day at a local amusement park is marked by the disappearances of his wife and son, a situation that reveals a tangled web of lies and deception.

Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.

In 2032, conservative Christians have been driven underground by a repressive government that discredits a former war hero during an effort to rescue a kidnapped scientist.

A story based on true events recreates a female slave's struggle for freedom in the decades before the Civil War as she is freed by her owner, kidnapped by slave catchers and returned to Virginia, and brings criminal charges against her kidnappers.

Artemis Fowl receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. Now, instead of battling the fairies, Artemis must join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.

"We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash." Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.