Kidnapping Thriller

Raymundo Betancourt es el ciudadano modelo: profesionista honesto y responsable, solidario y comprometido con el bienestar de su comunidad. Pero como la vida no sólo es trabajo, también se permite dos sencillos placeres cotidianos: los chicles de canela y las niñas que mantiene secuestradas en su sótano. El monstruo pentápodo nos enfrenta sin ambages ni eufemismos con la mente oscura del asesino, del psicópata adorable y manipulador ante cuyos encantos sucumbió Aimeé - otra “pequeña”, pero a su modo - hasta el punto de volverse cómplice a cambio de un poco de amor.

Just one look into the eyes of a grumpy ex-navy seal… and I’m hooked. I went to a lavish Newark hotel on my boss’ behalf, to meet with a billionaire CEO, Sebastian Hale, to work on a project. Surprisingly, on entering what I thought was my allocated hotel room, a tall, muscular man stands peering at me with a wry smile. My breath catches in my throat. Stunning blue eyes scan me from head to foot, leaving intense heat wherever they land on my body. Then, our gazes lock, sparks fly, tension soars…. We could not keep our hands off each other, not even during work. Right when I start to...

One year after her mother’s death, a woman prepares to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Digging through a trunk in the attic, looking for keepsakes for the occasion, she discovers photographs that call into question everything she believed about her life. The truth is a different story—one of a little girl in danger, a lie, and a mother’s love so fierce it led her to do the unimaginable.

One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest. In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone.

For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it's the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver's seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.

Rushing back to her seat, Makayla Rossi is relieved that all’s still quiet. But when she checks on her sleeping baby, relief morphs into fear. The bassinet is empty. Liam is gone. It was a long flight from Anchorage to New York, and with every flight attendant busy, Makayla reluctantly ran to the restroom, asking a seat neighbor to watch her son. She stepped away for just a few minutes. Yet at thirty thousand feet, he still vanished.

Deeper than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed as idyllic as any . . . until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called profiling" to put an end to the trauma. Now Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this best-selling series.

Overthrow a government. Destabilize the world. And it all starts with a single murder. From Kenneth R. Overman, award-winning author of the Nathan Radcliff Thriller series, comes a heart-pounding international suspense novel where history, power, and terror collide on the edge of Europe and the Middle East. When the president of a small island bank is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Professor Nathan Radcliff is pulled back into a world of secrets and shadows. The murder points to a treasure buried beneath an ancient graveyard near Istanbul, hidden since 330 A.D. and powerful ...

As IQ plugs a mysterious USB into his laptop, he's horrified to see what flashes across the screen: his girlfriend Grace is sweaty and bedraggled—her wrists wrapped with duct tape. Grace has been kidnapped by the likes of Skip Hanson, a brutish hitman with a vendetta against Isaiah. As IQ and Dodson attempt to locate Grace based on scant evidence, (read: a Sonic burger wrapper in one grainy image) they must wend through the stark, unrelenting East California landscape in search of clues.

Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star - yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. Callan Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house.

I thought there was no way to escape my arranged marriage to a crime boss. Until my biker ex-boyfriend kidnaps me. I'm being forced to marry the heir to a criminal empire to save my family’s business. My fiance is filthy rich, diabolically ruthless, and my living nightmare. I'm trapped in hell with the devil himself. Until my ex-boyfriend appears. And kidnaps me. When I first met my ex, Jackson, he was just the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The forbidden crush my parents forced me to stay away from. Now he’s back. With the road name Bullet on his biker cut With tattoos, ...

When a grisly teen murder rocks his quiet northwestern town, rough-around-the-edges Sheriff Jeffrey Mills has his hands full identifying the body while facing the mounting pressure of tracking down the missing high school teacher the community is determined to find. In the blink of an eye, a heart attack sidelines him during the search, and Mills faces an impossible choice: skirt the law and lose his one chance for redemption or leave Sarah Baker to her fate.

Every family has secrets, and Hope Novak's family is no exception. They're spies, with secrets that could shatter the foundations of nations. Novak journeys to Poland with a desire to reconnect with her long-lost family. But when she finally connects, her sister Ewa Krupa is viciously abducted, Hope's darkest fears are realized. Sworn enemies from her family's past have returned to hunt them down, and Hope must race across the globe to save her little sister before it's too late. With each step, perils deepen and Hope finds herself up against forces more powerful than she ever imagined. ...

One year after a terrible tragedy, the coastal town of West Seven is still recovering from its collective trauma. Deputy Lux Bern is a young rookie police officer with a mysterious past. When an opportunity arises to work with a seasoned detective, Lux jumps at the chance. A girl has gone missing, and Lux is personally invested in the teenager’s recovery.

In 1988, Sloan Hadfield's brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. Their father was arrested and charged with murder. Ridge's body was never recovered, and Sloan's mother slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Now, twenty years later, Sloan's life is unraveling. In the middle of a bitter divorce, she's forced to return to her rural Texas hometown when her mother is discharged from a mental health facility. Overwhelmed by memories and unanswered questions, Sloan returns to the last place her brother was seen all those years ago.

A man is found bludgeoned to death in woodland by the village of Canwick, and the close-knit community is sent into shock. Detective Karen Hart, still haunted by the tragic loss of her husband and daughter nearby, is brought in to investigate the horrific murder. It soon becomes clear that dark secrets lie behind Canwick’s unspoiled appearance. When Hart begins to suspect that a modern-day slavery ring has been hiding in plain sight among the villagers, she faces a race to find proof before the culprits slip from her grasp.

In a small town in NC, an abduction was being planned. There was a time when children could play outside, go to a movie, or shop at the local mall. Times had changed, and one family desperately hoped their thirteen-year-old daughter would be found. By sending in his DNA, Ally Malcom’s employer, Gene Talbot, discovered a cousin he didn’t know he had. Through this act, he was in contact with several cousins he never knew he had. One of them, Trent Williams, was facing a parent's worst nightmare: their child was abducted. Gene had no idea he had employed an undercover FBI agent. Eliza ...

The last thing Ash expects when she lands in Clearwater, Florida is to be stalked by a troubled teenager. If that's not bad enough, she is caught in a shooting spree next to the nearby elementary school. The cops think it’s an attempt at mass killing, but Ash wonders if the only victim was specifically targeted by the killer. Will she manage to identify him and have him arrested before he comes after her?

Be careful exposing secrets—it could cost you everything. A bond between two sisters might be the key to uncovering the truth. Emma never expected the nightly news to bring her sister, Scarlett, a well-known Dallas journalist, back into her life—let alone announce she’d been missing for three weeks. Estranged for over six years following a family tragedy, Emma is determined to bridge the gap and help find Scarlett before it’s too late. Partnering with Jackson, the lead detective on the case, Emma discovers that the key to uncovering Scarlett’s whereabouts lies in her missing ...

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.