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When a fateful choice splits her life into two realities, Lila Bennett endures one existence as a vengeful kidnapper's hostage and another as a decorated criminal defense attorney who is targeted by a mysterious assailant.

"Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it's the most powerful who have him in their grips. ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES. It's not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it's the fact that Riley has to do the man's dirty work to set them free. It's...

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar's off-the-books assignment leads them to the surviving members of Jack Reacher's elite military unit. Five years ago, Reacher sorted and destroyed a team of arms dealers in Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble before he moved on. He made mistakes. Now, Reacher's bad luck and trouble legacy plunges Otto and Gaspar into the mine field of a grudge war between Reacher's fearless old friends and chilling new enemies....

Ex-covert-ops soldier Paul Janson and his sharpshooting partner, Jessica Kincaid, set out to rescue the wife of an oil executive who has been kidnapped by Somali pirates.

"Revenge is a blade that cuts both ways. Sean MacLeod loses his family to renegades, but in his quest for retribution he nearly loses his soul. Seeking redemption, he follows the Spirit Trail down the Missouri River, leaving the Blackfoot nation of the north behind for the rugged Ozark Mountains. Sean's plans to rebuild his life take an unexpected turn when a local girl is taken hostage by the Osage. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, his choice is...

When a Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight and his one-man security detail goes missing, the security firm Rutherford Risk hires two unique outsiders to locate the two hostages ahead of the deadline.

When Dr. Hope McQuaid stops at the scene of an accident on a lonely west Texas highway, she ends up being used as bargaining chip for two dangerous fugitives with nothing to lose. Officer Chase Beckett intervenes in the hostage situation, but he will have to risk his own life to save his high school sweetheart--the one woman he's never been able to forget.

Sometimes a man must take a step back to move forwards ... In a small, sleepy Pennsylvania town, the staff of a loan store find themselves at the mercy of a gunman who demands they hand over the store's entire cash reserves. But when the sound of police sirens shatters the silence sooner than expected, the robber is forced to take a young female customer hostage in order to make his escape. Former Marine James Bishop is no stranger to being on the...

Hawk had Indian forebears, but lived the life of a peaceful rancher. Until, that is, the bandits came. With his wife dead and his son gone, kidnapped and beyond finding, Hawk returns to the ways of his people. He goes hunting, only this time he is hunting for the hardest game of all - the evil men who have committed the attack. Along with the men who have worked for him for most of his life, Hawk finds out that a member of his wife's family has conspired...

After Special Agent Stella Knox's friend and FBI tech ace Mac drops a bombshell regarding the death of Stella's father, she can't wait to follow up on the lead. But that's put on the backburner when six people are abducted from a dinner party, the door open, the table laid, and the meal started. Even more disturbing is that a two-year-old is among the missing. With no sign of a struggle and the only fingerprints belonging to the guests, there's little...