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Special agent Kate Rush resigns from the DEA and moves back to her native Miami where she is intrigued by a job offer to watch a property suspected of being a center for human trafficking, and teams up with former homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly, who has been hiding and writing novels since his family was murdered, but through their work together, Kate and Tick find an opportunity for a second chance at happiness.
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English
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Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD detective, multiple New York Times best-seller, and MWA Grand Master, is known as the father of the modern police novel and now, in Harbor Nocturne, he has produced one of the outstanding books of the year. Some LAPD characters from the acclaimed Hollywood Station series are here: the surfer cops known as "Flotsam and Jetsam", aspiring actor Hollywood Nate Weiss, and young Britney Small, along with new members of the...
3) Hell gate
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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New York County assistant district attorney Alex Cooper is called to the scene of a cargo shipwreck and finds nearly three hundred Ukrainian immigrants, some of who have died in the accident, immediately undergoing an investigation into human trafficking, during which she uncovers evidence that one of the victims was actually killed before the crash and has a connection to the lover of a married congressman.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America.
After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly...
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English
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When his apprentice Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim's demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--...
7) Sold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht--including two Senate rivals--Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious...
9) Lone Witness
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English
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She's keeping secrets. He must keep her safe. An FBI: Special Crimes Unit page-turner Were it not for Tessa Carlson, Special Agent Henry Miller's daughter would have been abducted. But rescuing the little girl has thrust Tessa -- a woman in hiding -- into the media's spotlight ... and into a criminal's crosshairs. Now her survival depends on putting her faith in widowed single father Henry if she wants to live to see another day.
10) Risky Return
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Stop investigating or you will die." A Covert Operatives story Searching for a missing pregnant foster teen, Rebecca Mason stumbles across a human trafficking ring. Now with criminals determined to silence Rebecca, security specialist Collin Walsh appoints himself her protector. But how can the secret husband who once abandoned her to join the military regain her trust? Collin will do anything to make up for the past ... but first he must ensure...
Author
Series
Outriders volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The town's former bad boy...is aiding and abetting the law. After saving a woman and baby from would-be kidnappers, ex-marine Matt Hennessey discovers he and Aubrey Blanchard have much in common -- starting over, painful pasts and an ice-cold murder case. Their attraction is instant and undeniable. But as they search for the baby's abducted sister, a human trafficking cartel threatens their lives. Can they bring down the vengeful criminals who don't...
12) A distant shore
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage to a dangerous...
Author
Series
In death novels volume 55
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who'd been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who'd hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two--but they'd been equally desperate. Unfortunately, they didn't...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Navy SEAL Matt Waterstone knows about keeping people safe. When his best friend's sister is attacked, Matt promises no harm will come to Ashley Sawyer -- not on his watch. But Matt's not the only protective one. Ashley will do anything to safeguard the residents of the battered women's shelter she runs. She's sure she can handle the threats she gets in return. What she can't handle is the way Matt scales the walls around her heart. Yet when she falls...
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Series
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a woman Cutter rescued from a human trafficking ring, turns up in his barn fearing for her life, he can' t turn her away, but he needs help.
Halle Kennedy, the woman he' s loved since they met in elementary school, hears the story and immediately volunteers to stay in Cutter' s cabin with him and this woman until they can help her determine her next step and find her a safe haven.
He and Halle come together to teach this woman about God'...
16) Montana Standoff
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"TELL US WHERE HE IS AND WE'LL LET YOU GO..."
Kidnapped and dragged into the Montana wilderness, Sarah Langston has no idea where her brother is or what her captors want with him. But when help arrives and removes her blindfold, she's shocked to see the father of the baby she gave up for adoption. Former policeofficer Bryan Keyes is convinced that Sarah's kidnapping is tied to a deadly human trafficking ring. Now with Sarah's brother in the line...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago. When one of Lucy's few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls--the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn't protect....
Author
Series
Texas Navy SEALs volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
She manages to surprise him in every way that matters ... Elite Navy SEAL Enrique Phantom" Ramirez is trained to expect the unexpected, but his growing feelings for brilliant horse trainer Elena Garcia catch him completely off guard. Phantom needs Elena's help to maintain his SEAL team's cover -- more critical than ever now that they've identified a conspiracy of mysterious power brokers in both Mexico and the U.S. But how can he get her to train...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In one of the most beautiful places on earth, the ugliest of crimes holds young, innocent lives in its evil grip. An intercepted cell-phone call from a remote area on the Olympic Peninsula tells beautiful, brilliant NSA researcher, Jennifer Akihara, that a group of girls will soon be sold into slavery by human traffickers. She enlists her fiance, Lee Brandt, to help find the holding location and convince the FBI to intervene. With the clock ticking...
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Publisher
Aina Castillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
I was the Alpha of my city.
A just and beloved governor.
In command of a court of Betas.
And, a proletariat of Omegas.
I was James Wicked. I still am.
But, to get it all back...
... I must kidnap her.
The daughter of my worst enemy.
Until they tried to dethrone me.
They kidnapped me. They locked me up.
They tried to sell me. I escaped.
They tried to kill him... Idiots.
No one can kill James Wicked.
I ran away leaving death in my wake.
Until I ran...
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