"To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective...

"Bone Criers have a sacred duty: to ferry the spirits of the dead to the afterlife. But the gods demand a sacrifice from them to prove their dedication. Ailesse has prepared since birth to become the matriarch of the Bone Criers, but first she must complete her rite of passage by finding -- and killing -- the boy she is destined to love. Bastien has been seeking revenge for his father's death at the hands of a Bone Crier. When he finds Ailesse on...

"A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two...

Private investigator Jessica Shaw and her partner Matt Connor discover a link between a series of kidnapped women, all taken from along the same highway, and a group of former college friends. But no sooner do they follow this up than one of the kidnapped women's parents gets spooked and drops the case. Jessica is blindsided, but she's determined not to give up: three women are missing, and many more may be at risk. Jessica can't turn her back on...