kidnapping

After being kidnapped by Mr. Chu, Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom and his friends Paul and Sofia must survive a series of tests in several different Realities.

Lisa Kallisto is one of those overworked, overscheduled mothers who never secures enough sleep at night. After getting her three kids off to school, working all day as the manager of a charitable animal shelter and taking care of her household, she's lucky to get a few minutes to herself. So when her daughter's friend Lucinda turns up missing after she was supposed to spend the night at Lisa's home, Lisa is full of blame and self-loathing. And she's not the only one who finds herself at fault: Most of Lucinda's family, the police and even her own husband, Joe, think Lisa should have paid more attention to what the two young teens were doing. Now, it looks like the kidnapper, who has already abducted one other girl, is at it again, and Lisa is trying to put the pieces together. So is Joanne Aspinall, an investigator with the local police in the small English town where both Lisa's and Lucinda's families live, and Joanne's finding that things are growing more and more curious as the pieces to the puzzle refuse to fit together.

During the summer of 1987, from their tree house fort in the woods, neighborhood boys Tim, Scott, and Luke spot a man holding a gun to missing sixteen-year-old Molly Peterson's back. The problem is, nobody believes their story, not even the police. As the search efforts to find Molly dwindle, the boys know that she, and the man with the gun, are nearby--and that they must now find and save Molly themselves. A growing sense of honor and urgency forces the boys to take action--to find Molly, to protect themselves, and to stand guard for the last long days of summer.

A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter without the help of the authorities.

Seventeen-year-old Meghan Powers, the president's daughter, is ready to begin a carefree life of college, tennis, and normalcy, but when she is kidnapped by terrorists one day after school, she is forced to search her soul for untapped strength.

Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle pulls out all the stops when Paolina, the now-teenage girl she has mentored for years, disappears without a trace, and as her search continues, Carlotta begins to suspect Paolina has been snatched by her biological father--a Columbian drug lord believed by many to be dead.

Chet and his human companion Bernie are called in to investigate a series of threats made against a pampered show dog named Princess, and when Princess and her owner are abducted and Bernie's girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears, the detective team realizes the show dog world is more dangerous than they ever imagined.

When she is taken hostage by a bank robber, Charlotte Emory finds that her experience provides her with a new perspective of her past life and the future she hopes to make for herself.

Stanley Alpert recounts the events surrounding his 1998 kidnapping, describing how he played on his captors' attitudes and fears to help him escape.