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Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know. It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she's survived into adulthood--with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex--she thought that turmoil was behind her. Until one Tuesday evening when she goes to pick up Alex from childcare only to discover he's been removed by Social Services....

Three best friends are at the venue to hear their favorite band. Only one makes it out alive. When police stop Dustin Webb with a warrant to search his trunk, he knows there's been a mistake. He's former military and owns a security firm. But he's horrified when the officers find explosives, and he can't fathom how they got there. Criminal attorney Jamie Powell was Dustin's best friend growing up. They haven't spoken since he left for basic training,...

Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, college student Jeff COnverse sees his future vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a place far deadlier than any penitentiary. Jeff finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manhattan, in a hidden landscape of twisting tunnels and forgotten subterranean chambers.

"If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story?" "Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail...

In Indonesia, an American gaming engineer is coerced into parting with cutting edge Artificial Intelligence software. But in the wrong hands, it could wreak havoc . . . A garbled message from his old friend Father Pat West warns President Jack Ryan of an impending technology crisis - and that Father Pat is in deadly danger. With the Campus on the trail of the potentially destructive computer programme, Jack races to save his friend. And time is...

"Life is good for Rafael de Bourbon. The forty-year-old Spaniard recently married to a wealthy English beauty, and is days away from opening a luxury boutique hotel off the southern coast of Thailand. But when the Royal Thai Police storm the hotel and arrest him for blackmail and extortion, 'Rafa' is thrown into Bangkok's most notorious jail. In desperation, he reaches out to the one man who can prove his innocence. Simon Riske, ex-con and now 'private...

At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a linebacker. Before his seventeenth birthday, he was in jail, awaiting trial for a heinous crime he did not commit. Although Brian was innocent, his attorney advised him that as a young black man accused of rape, he stood no chance of winning his case at trial. Especially since he would be tried as an adult. Facing a possible sentence...

"Matt Battles was an outcast in his own home town. Robbery and murder had been done and, despite a total lack of proof, many thought that Matt--and his pal, Johnny Kidd, who had disappeared after the crime--had been in on it. Then Matt was offered a chance to clear both their names by Sheriff Tom Chisholm--a man he'd considered his foe. All he had to do was get caught in a trumped-up robbery, and then get close to a trio of desperados doing time in...

"Everyone believes Amanda Stowe killed her husband--except for a mysterious woman who promises her evidence will clear Amanda's name. Amanda has to meet her ... even if it means jumping bail and praying she'll reach Alaska before law enforcement closes in. If Chance Walker has learned anything as a bounty hunter, it's that only the guilty run. When he captures Amanda, he's ready to bring her to justice. But attacks against Amanda make Chance reconsider....