kidnapping victims

When Ray and Zack finally arrive at Floor B3, they meet the mad prison guard Cathy Ward. There she punishes them with her sadistic traps including an electric chair and poison gas, and they struggle to escape each one and keep their promise to each other.

Amnesia-stricken Ray and serial killer Zack have reluctantly joined together to escape the basement. They stumble onto Floor B4 where they find a room full of headstones, with one seemingly belonging to Ray.

Rachel Gardner wakes up in a basement she knows not where, where a serial killer wrapped in bandages named Zach tries to kill her with a scythe. She escapes, but on the next floor she meets a man called Danny, who says he is her doctor--but as Rachel breathes a sigh of relief, she can't help noticing Danny has strange eyes.

"After her harrowing journey west to California, Lee Westfall has finally found a new home, one rich in gold, thanks to her magical power, a power that seems to be changing every day. But this home is rich in other ways, too: with friends who are searching for a place to be themselves, just as she is, and with love. Jefferson, her longtime best friend, hasn't stopped trying to win her heart. And Lee is more and more tempted to say yes. But her uncle Hiram hasn't given up his quest to get Lee and her power under his control. When she's kidnapped and taken to him, Lee sees firsthand the depths of her uncle's villainy. Yet Lee's magic is growing. Gold no longer simply sings to her, it listens. It obeys her call. Is it enough to destroy her uncle once and for all?"--Provided by publisher.

"Getting kidnapped over spring break was definitely memorable. But now that the surviving hostages are home, they want life to feel normal again: high school, dating, million-dollar galas. But there's no escaping the spotlight--or the truth about the ways they betrayed each other in the jungle. And this time, the real threat isn't kidnappers--it's what the 'friends' might do to each other"--Provided by publisher.

Stephanie does not get along with her mother's new boyfriend Gregg, who is so very different from her late father, and while Gregg goes out of his way to irritate her, Stephanie is unnerved when he mentions her resemblance to the girls who have recently gone missing from their homes.

"Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart. Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots. I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged features, and I can't bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror image, rewound to thirteen years ago. If you have any knowledge of Olivia Shaw's whereabouts or any relevant information, please contact... I've spent a long time peering into the faces of girls on missing posters, wondering which one replaced me in that basement. But they were never quite the right age, the right look, the right circumstances. Until Olivia Shaw, missing for one week tomorrow. Whoever stole me was never found. But since I was taken, there hasn't been another girl. And now there is"--.

When Sarah Roberts blacks out, she wakes to find prophetic notes mysteriously written by her own hand. After receiving a message that someone is about to be kidnapped with instructions on how to stop it, Sarah's convinced it won't be hard to do. She is wrong. The kidnappers take Sarah instead. She's thwarted them in the past, and they want to know how she keeps showing up where she has no business being. Sarah needs help from the police, but they're hunting her for a different reason. They found her notebook riddled with prophetic messages, linking her to crimes and unsolved cases. Is she a vigilante keeping score? Or on a citywide crime spree? Several years ago, someone murdered Sarah's sister, Vivian. Now, communicating with Sarah from the other side, they'll hunt the man who did it and the people who would do it again--to Sarah.

Katie Beers recounts her ordeal after being kidnapped as a young girl and held in an underground bunker by a friend of the family for seventeen days, and shares her efforts to move on with her life as she grew into adulthood.