Smoke Jensen, the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier, is all that stands between a greedy group of Eastern slickers and their schemes for a criminal empire in the Rockies. When Smoke heads to Boston with his wife, she is kidnapped, and a furious Smoke has a brutal showdown with a gang of hired guns.

As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.

A couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: their eight-year-old son has been abducted. But when the body is found and forensic evidence turns the case on its head, revealing disturbing parallels to events in Detective Caffery's own past, Caffery realizes he's dealing with much more sinister forces than he'd anticipated and finds it increasingly difficult...

"It's been eighteen years since Laney Thompson's sister was abducted and killed, but the pain Laney feels has never faded. And now the murderer is back, taunting Laney with mementos of her sister and threatening Laney's young daughter. School principal Noah Ryder is her best hope for protecting her daughter--if she can convince the former investigator to take the case. As the threats accelerate, a string of clues leads Laney to uncover old secrets....

As Blithedale searches for a missing girl, rumored to be abducted by aliens, a group of high school students experiences a series of romantic relationships and their effects on friendships.

Fight. Protect. Survive. The Ferron Empire once took slaves from across the world to work the mines and fields. After the Empire fell, the freed slaves founded the Undal Protectorate. This brutal militant state became obsessed with its independence, protecting the Undal Protectorate's borders from the remnants of Ferron no matter the cost. After one too many harrowing battles, Flore retired from the Stormguard Commandos. To escape the horrors she...

When Flynn Carroll's wife vanishes in the middle of the night, his investigation reveals a string of similar disappearances and draws the attention of Special Agent Diana Glass, a member of the planet's most secret police unit.

FBI agent Genna Snow's successful career cannot fully erase the heartache of a shattered childhood. After breaking the silence surrounding the abusive acts of a summer camp counselor, young Genna was abandoned by her family even as justice was being served in the courtroom. Years later, Genna was forced to relive the pain of abandonment when the man she loved, special agent John Mancini, walked out of her life without explanation. Now, having returned...

When Bella Barstowe is kidnapped, she believes her life and virtue are forfeit--until she's rescued by the notorious rogue Captain Rose (who happens to be the formidable Duke of Ithorne).