Amy Sterling learns that her boyfriend has been kidnapped, the police discount her suspicions about who took the young man, forcing Amy and her family to turn to a retired homicide detective, Devon Gray, to help them search for the suspect.
Former college football star Marcus Walker, working as a commodities trader in Chicago, vows not to surrender when he is kidnapped while on a camping trip by aliens who plan to sell him as a pet in one of the more "civilized" regions of the galaxy.
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
When twelve-year-old Shannon is kidnapped by a psychopath, her new friend, Katie, finds her life in danger when she unknowingly becomes the kidnapper's only witness.