Assistant County Attorney Ellen North is in charge of the prosecution of the trial of a child abductor in a rural Minnesota community. Her efforts are complicated by the silence of the victim, the presence of her former lover as the defense, and threatening telephone calls.

On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals--sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin,...

After breaking into a secret lab to find answers, Charlie Wilde and her friends find three more bracelets, but her hopes of rescuing her father are complicated when she has to keep her friends from going completely wild with their powers.

"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Burr to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett is...

"The Larkin siblings are known around the small town of Wofford Falls. Both are artists, but Peter Larkin, Lark to his friends, is the hometown hero. The one who went to the big city and got famous, then came back and settled down. He's the kind of guy who becomes fast friends with almost anyone. His sister Betsy on the other hand is more...eccentric. She keeps to herself. When Lark goes to deliver one of his latest pieces to a fabulously rich buyer,...

When a serial killer abducts a young woman's fianc�e, she must race against the clock to discover the identity of the killer and, more importantly, his motive.

"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...

"Out of nowhere, a retired 60-year old handyman snaps. He goes on a murder-spree, abducting healthy young people and torturing them with hand-tools. After he's caught, a media fascination in The Handyman swells. People want to know why he snapped. They want to hear all the grisly details. But he'll only tell his gruesome story to one person-- His estranged son."--Page 4 of cover

"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--

In early summer of 1977, a co-worker and Terry Lovelace camped in an Arkansas state park known as Devil's Den. The trip was to photograph wildlife. Rather than stay in the park's campground, they chose an isolated area to set up camp on a high meadow. It was late evening and our fire was nearly spent when something on the horizon caught the friend's eye. He pointed to three bright starts low in the western sky. They formed a perfect little triangle...