Five high school students from a wealthy neighborhood are kidnapped while on their way home in the school bus and try to find a way to escape their captors while their parents scrape to meet the ransom demands.
After seventeen-year-old Cam Stewart escapes from the kidnappers who took him from right in front of his San Diego home, he continues a dangerous adventure that includes finding a mysterious chip in his arm which leads him to question his identity.
Carlton Dunne IV, an outcast boarding school student with a secret identity as a graphic novelist, teams up with a beautiful Scottish girl who yearns to be an American police officer, to resolve an ancient feud and rescue Carlton's kidnapped father.
Fifteen-year-old Hope describes events leading her to agree to her boyfriend's plan to stage her abduction, and the consequences for their relationship, her family life, and her budding career as an actress.
Baltimore detective Kevin Infante becomes caught up in investigating a long-ago crime when police arrest a woman involved in a rush-hour accident only to have her tell them she is the younger of the two Bethany sisters who went missing from a local mall thirty years earlier.
Sixteen-year-old Jeff, returning home after having been kidnapped and held prisoner for three years, must face his family, friends, and school and the widespread assumption that he engaged in sexual activity with his kidnapper.
The family of a murder victim, a journalist opposed to capital punishment, and the man convicted of the killing find their lives bound together as the execution hour approaches, while the person who knows the truth about the murder waits to plunge them into an abyss of terror.
Deep in another reality, while using her ability to travel to parallel worlds, Nellie uncovers a conspiracy to abduct children for an experimental laboratory.
Los Angeles private detective Regan Reilly teams up with lottery winner and amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan to investigate when Regan's father Luke and his driver, Rosita, are kidnapped pending a one million dollar ransom.
