McKinty, Adrian

After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together. When they discover remote Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it's up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don't trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead.

"You just dropped off your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone. Your child has been kidnapped. The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child - within 24 hours. Your child will be released only when the next victim's parents kidnap yet another child. And most importantly, the stranger explains, if you don't kidnap a child, or if the next parents don't kidnap a child, your child will be murdered. You are now part of The Chain"--Provided by publisher.

You just dropped off your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone. Your child has been kidnapped. The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child; within 24 hours. Your child will be released only when the next victim's parents kidnap yet another child. And most importantly, the stranger explains, if you don't kidnap a child, or if the next parents doesn't kidnap a child, your child will be murdered. You are now part of The Chain.

Detective Sean Duffy is tasked with solving the case of a young woman who appears to have committed suicide, but whose death remains questionable.

When Jamie and Ramsay answer a summons to return to Altair, accompanied by Ramsay's cousin Brian, they learn that the Witch Queen wants to capture the Salmon from them and use it to transport her people from that dying planet to Earth--and that Jamie's beloved Wishaway has agreed to marry someone else.

Shortly after moving with his mother from Harlem to Ireland, teen cancer survivor Jamie O'Neill discovers a portal in a lighthouse that brings him to a distant planet, where he helps a community of aliens fight against invading warriors.

After her father is killed in a hit-and-run, Detective Mercado escapes from Cuba in order to search for her father's killer and bring them to justice, even if it means risking her own life.

Mercenary bad boy Michael Forsythe is forced to face murder, mayhem, and the possibility of his own execution when the FBI asks him to infiltrate an Irish terrorist cell.

Irish mercenary Michael Forsythe, living as a fugitive in Lima, Peru, is forced to return to Ireland when his nemesis Bridget Callaghan, a former lover and one-time fiancee of a mob boss killed by Forsythe, tracks him down and offers to forgive all past transgressions in exchange for finding her kidnapped eleven-year-old daughter.