Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself in over her head once again when she agrees to look into the disappearance of Evelyn Soder and her seven-year-old daughter as a favor to Evelyn's mother who has guaranteed a child custody bond with the mortgage on her house.
Janine finds herself in the midst of a mother's worst nightmare when her eight-year-old daughter Sophie, a child who suffers from kidney disease, disappears in the woods of West Virginia while on a scouting trip.
A promise made on a whim comes back to haunt sports and entertainment agent Myron Bolitar when he is asked to drop off a neighborhood girl in a suburban area and she promptly vanishes.
While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother, Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves.
The students of Greenwich Private College flee to their homes when a student is murdered, but Jeanie's curiosity keeps her on campus, and she finds a chilling link between the killing and a ghostly curse.
When the missing students return to their elite Australian boarding school, the remaining students realize the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearances may be linked to more than just the school.
When a storm separates Stumpy the squirrel from her newborn babies, her animal friends Kona the dog, Murray the bat, and Gwendolyn the hermit crab come to the rescue.
Even though they promise not to leave the den when their mother goes out hunting for a chicken for supper, five little foxes are unable to resist going outside to play in the dark.
Jack Reacher arrives in a Nebraska town and becomes suspicious of the Duncans, a controlling local clan, when he starts work on the unsolved case of a missing child and uncovers the Duncans involvement in a criminal food chain.