Harrowing story about an escaped convict who breaks into a suburban home and takes a family hostage.

A nervous bank customer has a crush on beautiful teller. They and the other staff and customers become hostages when two very different groups of crooks hit the bank simultaneously. When people begin mysteriously dying one by one, everyone involved begins to wonder if there's someone else in the bank up to no good.

Newly divorced federal judge Grace Silva turns to Joe Faroe, a former lover and ex-kidnapping specialist, for help when her teenage son Lane Franklin is taken hostage by a Mexican drug lord who is demanding millions he claims were stolen from him by Lane's father.

When shy Maggie Ferringer reports for jury duty, she is abducted by escaped convict Cain Cannon, who reveals the circumstances of his wrongful arrest and who an increasingly enamored Maggie resolves to prove innocent.

A motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind criminal who requires them to act as his eyes while he retrieves cash from a crooked cop.

When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects. On a quest...

The Witch Queen takes Mabel Jones' sister hostage, hoping to lure Mabel to the Forbidden City where she can settle a score using black magic, and on her journey the young heroine encounters an arrogant fox and a ferocious jungle millipede, as well as some old friends.

In 1975, as he is held hostage by an Arab and an Italian who plan to trade him for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners, storyteller, writer, and husband Shaltiel Feigenberg relates stories about his life, including those about his Communist brother and childhood hiding from Nazis in a cellar.