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Author
Series
Edge series (Ilona Andrews) volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Charlotte de Ney, a blueblood from the Weird with magical healing abilities, finds her new life in the Edge disrupted when Richard Mar, a swordsman seeking to wipe out slavers trafficking humans, is brought to her for treatment.
22) Fallen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A talented hacker who got caught, Brigid Banaghan is now forced to work with a secret Deep Ops unit. But she won't reveal any more to these renegade Feds than she has to. Especially not to Raider Tanaka, her control freak of a bodyguard and handler. It's enough that his body is tensed for action and his heated gaze is always on her... Raider knows there's more to his new assignment than he's been told. Why send a deadly agent of his experience to...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Suffering a breakdown after a traumatic case three years earlier, former NYPD vice cop Dan Champion starts over as a small-town detective and is shocked by a case involving the murder of a woman he recognizes from a hallucination whose identity a group of expert killers would keep a secret.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
Author
Series
Murphy Shepherd novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Murphy Shepherd has made a career helping survivors of human-trafficking, but when his new wife and daughter are stolen, the nightmare hits too close to home.
26) Dead on arrival
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to pay off gambling debts, Dawn and Reese Spencer get drawn into a lucrative illegal-immigrant-smuggling ring, but after several immigrants turn up dead on arrival and Reese bets more than he can ever repay, the Feds and cold-blooded loan sharks begin closing in.
Author
Series
Teeny Templeton mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton witnesses a murder that reveals that her boyfriend Coop O'Malley may be the father of the victim's ten-year-old daughter.
29) Total bravery
Author
Series
True heroes volume 4
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Determined to prove himself, Raul, the newest recruit at Search and Protect, is put to the test when he falls in love with the woman he has been hired to protect from an international kidnapping ring.
30) Harbor nocturne
Author
Series
Hollywood Station volume 5
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law amid the investigation of a horrifying human-trafficking ring. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed as the two are caught in the crosshairs of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
32) A false dawn
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O'Brien feels like he's been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. What he discovers there, however, opens a dark door to something more frightening than anything he ever investigated in Miami.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of a year-missing Ojibwa girl washes up on a Lake Superior island, rekindling Native American superstitions about mythical monsters, Cork O'Connor struggles to obtain information from reluctant witnesses to a brutal sex-trafficking operation.
35) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
36) Dash of peril
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret "Margo" Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is six feet four inches of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life -- and women -- to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her own ... Beneath Margo's tough facade is a slow-burning sexiness that drives...
37) A distant shore
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever.Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. Shes an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Central Avenue Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the twilight of a November evening, Sir Henry, a man of wealth and charm, comes across a badly beaten Eliza, desperate to escape her cruel stepfather. Realizing she has nowhere to go, Sir Henry takes her to his home in Mayfair. There, as she recovers, Henry introduces the lovely Eliza to a world of art and literature she never knew existed. But Eliza's brutal world follows her to London, where the salons of the aristocratic elite co-exist with...
39) Mèo and Bé
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1964, before the United States enters the Vietnam War, eleven-year-old Bé and her three-footed kitten Mèo must rise above a broken home and the injustices of war to find the comfort, safety, and love of a found family.
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