Dink and his friends meet an exchange student, Sammi, who is actually the prince of an island country, hiding from those enemies who have kidnapped his parents and who may be after him as well.
During the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope, seized by the band of Tories who attack her Connecicut home, finds herself enslaved in a Tory household on Long Island and uses all her resources to escape from her captors and make her way home.
High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help locate missing children.
As he is getting ready to play in the football championship at his high school, Jim Barclay is kidnapped and must find a way to escape and save his life and the game.
Traces the two-and-a-half year investigation by the New Jersey State Police of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, challenging the effectiveness of the investigation and the evidence that convicted Bruno Hauptmann.
Identical sisters Drucilla, Sabina, and Tamara are kidnapped as part of a plot to undermine their father, Desmond, Earl of Skorpys's, realm and taken to a mysterious region where they must face terrors unlike anything they could imagine.