A brother and sister uncover a sinister kidnapping plot when their family moves into a strange house over Christmas vacation.

Held against her will and raped by her 38-year-old boss, 19-year-old Anna tries to make sense of her unbelievable situation. How did an innocent friendship with her boss turn into weeks of forced sex and the inability to leave her oppressors side? Furthermore, what happens when weeks of rape result in a pregnancy?This true-life novel depicts a graphic and raw recounting of the unimaginable horrors of the Summer of 2010. (Some names and identifying features have been changed)

The Sunday Times top ten bestseller... You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now. Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. Held captive by a sadistic paedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies... each one stolen away from Anna at birth. Her salvation arrived thirteen years too late, but despite her shattered mind and body, Anna finally managed to flee. This is her harrowing, yet uplifting, true story of survival.

Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

A kidnapping fueled by hate in the stealth of night threatens to derail the faith of the victim’s husband, a preacher, who has his own demons to fight. Add to this other crimes and bizarre ransom demands. The husband’s life skids out of control while the fate of the wife is unknown. Will she survive? Will she be allowed to return to her husband and child? Will he survive? Will their faith endure to the end? Detectives, led by the husband’s brother, try to identify the kidnapper. Their leads are confusing and fruitless. The husband continues to be subjected to attacks by the kidnapper and others, who may or may not be working for the kidnapper. His sanity hanging in the balance, he turns to his eternal source of hope and comfort. His wife, too, leans on her Savior. Neither knows the outcome, but both know who does.

_________________________________Two women - desperate to unlock the truth.How far will they go to lay the past to rest?ANNAhas been taught that virtue is the path to God. But on her eighteenth birthday she defies her Mamma?s rules and visits Florida?s biggest theme park. She has never been allowed to go - so why, when she arrives, does everything seem so familiar? And is there a connection to the mysterious letter she receives on the same day?ROSIEhas grown up in the shadow of the missing sister she barely remembers, her family fractured by years of searching without leads.Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of her sister?s disappearance, the media circus resumes in full flow, and Rosie vows to uncover the truth. But will she find the answer before it tears her family apart?

In the impenetrable prison known as ADX Florence, Anna Wodehouse's past is coming. The shadow of HALON invades her isolation bringing more danger to her tortured life. In this action-packed thriller Anna discovers that the physical reality of the forces out to kill her are nothing compared to the emotional prison she has built around herself.

A new look at the 1937 abduction of a wealthy wife and mother, based on previously classified FBI documents—includes photos. When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island’s wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months. J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned his best FBI agents to the case, and within a short time, Parsons’s husband and their live-in housekeeper, Anna Kupryanova, had become prime suspects. Botched ransom attempts, clashes between authorities, and romantic intrigue kept the investigation mired in drama. The crime remained unsolved. Now, in this book, former Suffolk County detective Steven C. Drielak reveals previously classified FBI documents—and pieces together the mystery of the Alice Parsons kidnapping.

Evelyn is trapped in an unhappy marriage with Jack Moorland, the impotent heir to a software fortune. Her husband treats her with nothing but contempt, but Evelyn lacks the confidence to leave him—and he has no intention of letting her go. Then one fateful night, she accidentally trades her prison for another when she catches an intruder in the act and he takes her captive to make his getaway. Her kidnapper, the rough-mannered Hal, terrifies her at first. But when she realizes this intimidating stranger treats her better than her so-called husband...and he has feelings for her...Evelyn's resentment turns into desire. Hal was supposed to hold her hostage only until he was sure of his escape...but after things turn steamy between the kidnapper and his victim, will he ever want to release her? Note to reader: This is a standalone contemporary romance novel featuring a lot of action, suspense and steamy love scenes between the main characters. Recommended for mature readers. If you enjoy your romance hot with a taste of thriller, this might be what you're looking for!

A diamond ring that was created in the 1930s for a special lady suddenly turns up again in the late 1990s. What happened to the Nazi officer who had taken it from her son before he shot him? Did he become a respected member of post-war society? Has a famous theologian been hiding a vicious past from his family and friends? Is there a future for non-violent people in the Middle East? What makes victims of oppression become oppressors, themselves? Can reprehensible acts against humanity ever be forgiven? Can Moslems, Jews and Christians ever be reconciled? Can we humans still be humane, or have hate and greed become the forces that motivate our spirits and souls? This story touches sensitive issues and shows that people of different backgrounds and religions can overcome prejudice and build lasting relationships.