Henry Carter Hull

Thirty-one-year-old Celia, having blocked out circumstances involving the disappearance of her best friend and rival Djuna twenty years earlier, realizes that in order to move forward in her relationship with her longtime boyfriend, Huck, she must return home and confess the truth, but when her family and friends do not believe her she must find another way to prove what happened.

Kyra and David Winter, a happily married couple with a young son, Michael, whom they adore, are distraught when Michael disappears from their own backyard, and while David is certain that his troubled ex-wife has taken Michael, Kyra believes that someone from her estranged family took him, and as they try to find Michael, they are forced to face their hidden pasts and at the same time discover that the world is as dangerous as it is beautiful.

Milla, still searching for her son ten years after he was kidnapped from her arms as an infant, now works through Finders, an agency she started to help find lost and missing children, but her quest puts her in touch with two very different and powerful men, one a generous contributor and one a reputed assassin, and she must decide who to trust and who wants her dead.

The Fletcher family moves to Steuben, North Carolina, thinking it will be the right place for them. However, when their eight-year-old son Stevie becomes very withdrawn, they discover that he is being stalked and that other boys have mysteriously disappeared from the town.

When Daniel Winterton's ambitious wife, Caroline, went missing from their country home, leaving a little daughter in the charge of her nanny, Mike Yeadings was involved as a sergeant in the investigation. He had hopes that the case would advance his career, however Caroline and her current lover were traced to the Canary Islands, where the trail abruptly ended. Eight years later the case is brought back to Detective Superintendent Yeadings' attention....

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that she is entering the home of a known pedophile ...and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are...