Captive Thrillers

Trapped in a twisted and dark courtship with a secret woman who needs my strength to survive, I will be wed. Walking the thin line between lunacy and reality, I am now the protector of my future captive bride. So I have no choice but to recite the vows: I take thee. In this arranged matrimony. Until we are parted by death.

A body, wrapped in plastic, is discovered in a ditch along a secluded country road. Detective Jade Monroe and her partner Jack Steele arrive at the scene in minutes. Suspicious-looking evidence gives the impression that this young woman has been held captive. As days pass, more local women vanish without a trace. Jade and her team of detectives fear the worst. With precious time slipping away, Jade needs to pull out all stops to find this perpetrator, even if that means putting herself directly in harm's way.

I'm the girl you'll never see coming. Blink and you're dead - another target checked off my list. But one night, everything in my carefully ordered existence falls apart. A bloodbath and a car crash later, I find myself in the grasp of four gorgeous, intimidating men. Are my captors cops, like they claim, or something far more sinister? They sure know how to bend the law. And seeing how skillfully they handle a gun or a knife, I can't help wondering what their hands would feel like all over me.

A very eager - and rather naive - Australian lawyer, Kerry Maxwell, flies into South Africa to volunteer at a wildlife orphanage run by notorious vet Graham Baird. Graham is as jaded and reckless as Kerry is law-abiding and optimistic. When Kerry arrives at the animal sanctuary it’s to the news that Graham is imprisoned in Mozambique following a shootout with elephant poachers. In the gunfight he killed the brother of corrupt politician and poaching kingpin Fidel Costa.

Eve Duncan’s daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb—until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all, in this gripping suspense novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. Jane MacGuire is enjoying a period ofdomestic bliss as she...

Former FBI agent Rebecca West came to Shadow Island to relax and clear her head, not step into a dead sheriff’s long worn shoes. Here she is, though, Interim Sheriff over a small department grieving for their boss and friend. But not for long. Before she can resign from the unwanted position, a little girl goes missing. On vacation with her parents, the eight-year-old was last seen outside her family’s vacation rental drawing on the sidewalk with a box of chalk.

Branded by betrayal, fueled by revenge—I’m back to destroy the brother who banished me. The Castiglione name once ruled the Midwest mafia, but Saverio erased me like I never existed. Five years in exile only sharpened my hunger for vengeance. Now, I’ll burn his empire to the ground—but I need the most dangerous weapon I can find: Raiden Drake. Raiden’s the Destroyers’ enforcer, a ruthless man who bends rules and breaks bones. He doesn’t take orders, but he does take control—of everything. My body. My mind. My soul. And once he claims them, there’s no turning back. They say...

I unraveled Miriam's world with a single eviction notice. She never saw it coming. Desperate and out of options, she found my carefully crafted snare, an ad for room and board in exchange for help with my college thesis. To her, the opportunity was heaven-sent. To me, it was just another ritual for my coven, The 12 Knights of Adika. She was one of many blind, Christian lambs I'd drawn into a world never to be escaped. But as I engaged in my facade of philosophical debates, her unwavering faith clashed with my cold atheism, sparking a dangerous fascination. Her remarkable defiance and ...

Emily thought she knew what love was—until she found herself locked away in a secluded cabin by the one person she trusted the most. What began as a romantic weekend escape quickly turns into a twisted nightmare. Jason, her seemingly perfect boyfriend, takes control of everything—where she goes, what she eats, even when she sleeps. As the walls of their idyllic cabin close in, Emily starts to see the truth behind Jason’s charm: a dark obsession that runs deeper than she ever imagined. But Jason isn’t the only one hiding secrets. When Rachel, a mysterious woman with her own dark past...

Revenge or redemption. Which would you choose? Twenty-five years ago, Kristi King was one of the hottest porn stars in America, a sexy young vixen lusted after by millions. But one Halloween night, her world was shattered. A sadistic, baby-faced psychopath and predator brutalized, violated, and humiliated her, before kidnapping her to satisfy his own dark and twisted desires. Now, having rebuilt her life as a psychologist and victim's right advocate, she finds herself sitting across a table from the man who tortured her, as part of a "restorative justice" confrontation, reliving every ...

The unforgettable story of a young English lady and the warrior who saves her from sure death, a woman and a man from different worlds, two bold hearts who find passion in a divided land and swear to love each other forever. “I am so in love with her books every spare minute has been spent reading them since I found the first one! 3 books in and it's this one that is my favorite so far, I love The Raven!”—Melody Banks Raven watches with his younger brother Takooko through the trees near the Susquehanna River as the enemy Mohawk war party heads north in several canoes with their ...

A child disappears, leaving behind a broken and grieving family. With no witnesses, no motives, and no evidence, Hadley, Vince, and Eddie must delve deep into the past to piece together what really happened, unaware of the powerful enemies they're about to make. Two-year-old Jonah Davidson disappeared from his family's front yard 15 years ago. While most people believe he's dead or will never be found, his desperate sister turns to the Fleck, Collins, and Marcotte Agency for help. As the detectives dig up clues from the past, they uncover a web of secrets, including some of Hadley's own.

He kidnapped me and now I must unravel the mystery: is he the Ripper, or my Beast? He stole her away in the desolate wintry woods.A man with an insatiable thirst for revenge takes Violet to his isolated cabin in the woods—but not all is as it seems. There’s a serial killer on the loose, and in his supposed twisted plight to be her savior, he may well destroy the one person whose innocence he wishes to preserve and protect. She loses the very freedom she once took for granted and comes to know a beast of a man whose depth is much more than the cold kidnapper which he attempts to portray ...

For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping 23-year-old Adeline Woolsaw. They don’t want a ransom—they want to expose the Woolsaw Group, the source of Adeline’s parents’ enormous wealth, a vast yet largely anonymous company that runs everything from military bases and mental hospitals to commuter trains, call centers, and prisons.

Four men. One ritual. A kingdom of supernatural power at stake. Heiress Olivia Blackwood has spent her life as magical royalty, her family ruling the supernatural criminal underworld for generations. Publicly, she plays the perfect daughter; privately, she's her father's most dangerous weapon, her telekinetic abilities honed to lethal precision. But when she uncovers her father's unthinkable betrayal, the carefully constructed façade begins to crumble. Kidnapped by the notorious Valenti brothers, powerful magic users openly challenging her family's throne in the supernatural hierarchy, ...

A luxury kidnapping? Or a disaster in the making? He’s done this before—followed women, watched them, waited for their secrets to surface. It always ends the same. He chooses the perfect victim. And then he makes them pay. But this one? She’s too perfect. Too normal. The kind of woman who smiles like she has nothing to hide. That’s what gives her away. When she leaves the hospital that night, he’s ready. Calm. Precise. Until she turns to him and says: “This is a mistake.” She’s not talking about him. By the time he realizes he’s taken the wrong woman—she’s already ...

A watcher in Venice tells Dan Stone, a CIA assassin, to take a job he doesn't want: rescue a runaway girl and kill her captor. Against the wishes of his handlers, he plunges ahead. Dan's decision leads him on a mad chase through Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria with a drug-addled girl and two killers on his tail. He's following a dark and deadly labyrinth of deceit, treachery, and depravity that ends with a deadly terrorist attack. Will Dan be able to disrupt it in time?

A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers had been cut off. Who is inflicting this violence and why? The young woman in the barn had been kept captive for some time. And the case shows strong similarities to an unsolved murder in Derbyshire. When another woman is found alive with similar injuries, the case grows even more complicated.

MORE INSTA-LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN . . . FOR THE HOLIDAYS! A rival mafia family destroyed my world, and that's only the beginning of my nightmare before Christmas. But instead of starting an unwinnable war against a more powerful family, I offer something to the ruthless Italian mobster . . . A Christmas gift wrapped neatly in red . . . A red dress, that is. Because I'm that peace offering . . . I'm that gift . . . I'm . . . I'm . . . I'm . . . I'm his. OMG, I'm his! New instalove series of novellas. Sweetness and darkness wrapped tight in a bow. No cheating. No cliffhangers. Guaranteed...

In the years since the Xyletian Empire took everything away from him, omega Drey Dredesere has only ever wanted revenge against those responsible. When two rebel soldiers rescue him from his hotel prison, Drey realizes he may finally have a chance. Alphas Paz and Hendricks are on a mission to hunt down an enemy from their past, and like Drey, their emotional scars have kept them from ever knowing the warmth of a mate's love. Paz and Hendricks allow Drey to join them on their journey, but when he goes deep into heat for the two soldiers, the omega must confront the traumas that prevent him ...