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Jump the cracks

2008
On the way to visit her father in New York City, fifteen-year-old Victoria finds an apparently abused child in the train's bathroom and soon finds herself branded a kidnapper and on the run while trying to fulfill her promise to protect the boy at all costs.

Broken moon

2007
When her little brother is kidnapped and taken from Pakistan to race camels in the desert, eighteen-year-old Nadira overcomes her own past abuse and, dressed as a boy and armed with knowledge of the powerful storytelling of the legendary Scheherazade, is determined to find and rescue him.

Beautiful lies

2012
Eighteen-year-old identical twin sisters, Alice and Rachel, are united by a psychic bond that even gives physical wounds to one when the other is injured. When one twin is abducted, the other must use their bond to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance.

Wither #1 The Chemical Garden Trilogy

2011
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.

Devoted

an Elixir novel
2011
Clea, not sure if her soul mate Sage is alive or dead, begins having dreams of him with another woman and decides to team up with his enemy in an effort to locate him.

Panic

2013
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.

Pop goes the weasel

2000
Detective Alex Cross is investigating a string of murders when his fianc?e is kidnapped, and soon he becomes obsessed with finding the homicidal maniac who is trying to ruin his life.

Two little girls in blue

2006
Margaret and Steve Frawley return from an evening out to discover their three-year-old twins have been kidnapped and an eight-million dollar ransom demanded, but even though Frawley's employer pays the money, only Kelly is returned, and Kathy is believed to have been killed until Kelly insists she is in telepathic communication with her sister who is alive but in grave danger.

Trial

the inside story
2001
The author follows a real-life kidnapping trial from beginning to end in an effort to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of America's criminal justice system.

Fitz

a novel
2012
Fifteen-year-old Fitz kidnaps the father he has never known, taking him from his St. Paul apartment building at gunpoint, in an attempt to address his bewildering mix of resentment and yearning.

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