extortion

Jesse seems like a normal sixteen-year-old, but he isn't. He is a victim of King--a ruthless hacker who has been blackmailing Jesse with incriminating screen photos and videos. Terrified and helpless, the answer to Jesse's prayers arrives in the form of a plain manila envelope. Inside there's a phone number and a note: I can help.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

Reed Brennan, on scholarship at the exclusive Easton Academy, has achieved her goal of getting into the luxurious Billings dorm, home of the wealthiest and most sophisticated girls, but she finds herself at their mercy when her roommate snaps some pictures of her in several compromising positions at an illicit party.

Overwrought when she sees her ex-boyfriend with another girl, Miriam Feldman races into the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden and pushes over a priceless Picasso sculpture, then finds herself blackmailed by the mystery girl who saw what she did.

"Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed"--Provided by publisher.

"Twelve-year-old Howard Wallace lives by his list of rules of private investigation. He knows more than anyone how to work with what he's got: a bathrobe for a trench coat, a makeshift office behind the school equipment shed, and not much else-least of all, friends. So when a hot case of blackmail lands on his desk, he's ready to take it on himself . . . until the new kid, Ivy Mason, convinces him to take her on as a junior partner. As they banter through stakeouts and narrow down their list of suspects, Howard starts to wonder if having Ivy as a sidekick-and a friend-is such a bad thing after all"--Dust jacket.

Seventeen-year-old Breanna's reputation as smart, responsible, and the moral compass of her family is compromised when a revealing photo of her and Thomas "Razor" Turner, a boy in the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, surfaces. Then, it gets even worse--some online stalker blackmails her using the photo. Turning to Razor, Breanna asks his help in tracking down her blackmailer, while she promises to help him seek answers to a haunting mystery, one his club brothers don't even discuss.

A killer on the loose in Albuquerque, New Mexico has come for Jack Coclough, and the family's first instinct is to run.

While visiting Chicago, twins Ashley and Bryce catch up with old friends, visit the house where they grew up, see many reminders of their deceased father, and help search for their best friends' uncle, who disappeared days before his wedding.

Lindy takes financial advantage of her elderly employer's mistake and pays for a dream trip to the Arctic. However, when she tells someone what she has done, she begins paying for her deed.