kidnapping victims

"Ten years ago, Stefan Korsak's younger brother was kidnapped. No one knew who took Lukas, or why. He was simply gone. But not a day has passed that Stefan hasn't thought about him. As a rising figure in the Russian mafia, Stefan has finally found him. But when he rescues Lukas, Stefan must confront a terrible truth--his brother is no longer his brother. He is a killer. Trained, brainwashed, and genetically transformed into a flesh-and-blood machine with only one purpose: assassination. Now those who created him will do anything to reclaim him. As Stefan grows closer to his brother, he realizes that saving Lukas may be easier than surviving him."--back cover.

Fourteen-year-old Amy's excitement over her first babysitting job ends when she and her three-year-old charge are kidnapped, but a daily videorecording sent to little Kendra's parents allows Amy to send clues, in hopes of being rescued before the kidnappers decide they no longer need her.

When twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada arrives in New York's Hudson Valley, she is surprised to run into a shadowy figure from her previous life who ropes her into caring for three young fugitives smuggled out of California.

Sold into slavery by his uncle, Davie Balfour is pressed into service as cabin boy to the drunken captain who kidnapped him and sees no way out of his predicament until Alan Breck Stewart, an exiled Jacobite, comes aboard.

In the summer of June 1991 Jaycee Dugard was a normal kid. That all changed in an instant when she was kidnapped. For eighteen years Jaycee Dugard lived in her kidnapper's backyard in shacks and tents, raised her two daughters, and tried to survive. On August 26, 2009 she took her own name back when she was rescued, a name she was not allowed to speak during her captivity.

In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.