Baldacci, David

While trying to protect his identity from a man seeking revenge for the death of his father, Oliver Stone, a former CIA assassin, and a group of justice seekers protect Annabelle Conroy, a woman who stole millions of dollars from a casino owner in retaliation for her mother's murder.

First lady Jane Cox insists on hiring private detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help when her twelve-year-old niece is abducted and the child's mother killed following a birthday party at Camp David, and while the investigators have no trouble identifying the assailant, they cannot figure out the motive for his obsession with the first family.

Jack, terminally ill, is helpless when his wife Lizzie is killed in a car accident and his three children separated, sent to live with family members across the country, but a miraculous turn of events puts Jack on the road to recovery and he sets out to put his family back together over the course of a summer spent at Lizzie's childhood home in South Carolina.

While Sara Evans is researching a murder case, she finds evidence that links the murderer to the Supreme Court, and soon she finds herself trying to save the escaped convict so that she can uncover the conspiracy that is killing some of the most influential people in the United States.

LuAnn Tyler, a twenty-year-old unwed mother, is targeted as the beneficiary of Jackson, a master criminal who fixes the national lottery in her favor in exchange for a share of the winnings, but when she violates a condition of their deal, LuAnn finds herself in peril not only from Jackson but from government officials who are on to the lottery scam.

Cynical journalist Tom Langdon comes to a new understanding of himself and a renewed appreciation for the season of miracles after a slight misunderstanding at the airport forces him to travel by train from Washington to Los Angeles at Christmastime.

While competing with a rival restaurant for the winning float in the Founder's Day parade, nine-year-old Freddy Funkhouser constructs a batch of animated French fries in his secret laboratory that come to life after receiving an enormous jolt of electricity.

When the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team is attacked, agent Web London is the sole survivor. Living with questions and guilt, he sets out to discover what really happened that night, as forces from all sides try to stop him.