Single mom Vivi Vincent is thrust into her worst nightmare when she's trapped inside a mall during a terror attack along with her eight-year-old son. With the help of Jed Brennan, an FBI special agent on enforced leave, Vivi and her son survive the assault. But the danger is far from over. Vivi's son may have witnessed critical details of the terrorists' future plans and is targeted for death, but he's mute, and he's traumatized. Still someone launches...

"Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything--except falling in love. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dominic Sheridan is an accomplished expert in the Crisis Negotiation Unit. Practiced, professional, used to dealing with high-stake situations under tense conditions, Dominic is a master at manipulating people. Everyone, that is, but the headstrong rookie agent bent on destroying her fledgling career. As a child, Ava Kanas put her life on...

"Top FBI negotiator Quentin Savage is hurled into his worst nightmare when a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel propels him from esteemed keynote speaker to powerless captive. Haley Cramer is co-owner of a private security company and prides herself on her independence, but she is shaken to the core when gunmen attack a conference she is attending. She survives, but only because Quentin Savage pretends she's his wife. Together, Quentin and Haley plot...

When old evidence turns up on a fresh corpse, ASAC Lincoln Frazer is determined it will not delay the execution of a convicted serial killer. But when more young women are brutally slain, it becomes clear that this new killer is intimately familiar with the old murders.

Searching for the truth ... Disgraced investigative journalist Pip West is devastated when she discovers her best friend's body face-down in a tranquil lake. When cops and federal agents determine that her friend overdosed then drowned, Pip knows they're mistaken and intends to prove it. Special Agent Hunt Kincaid doesn't trust journalists and has no patience for Pip's delusions, especially since her meddling could reveal why the FBI is interested...

Physicist Scarlett Stone is the daughter of the man considered to be the most notorious Russian agent in FBI history. With her father dying in prison she's determined to prove he's innocent. Using a false identity, she gains access to the Russian ambassador's Christmas party, searching for evidence of a set-up, and meets FBI Special Agent, Matt Lazlo. Not only does Scarlett's scheme fail, it puts her in the sights of powerful people who reward unwanted...

Working in the shadows, CIA Officer Patrick Killion needs to figure out if feisty frog biologist, Audrey Lockhart, is a deadly assassin or an innocent scapegoat. And the only way to do that is to gain her trust. Attacked and left for dead, Audrey is forced to put her trust in an enigmatic stranger who saves her from certain death. Then Audrey discovers her rescue was actually an abduction, and the man she thought was her savior is her captor. Killion...

Detective Erin Donovan expects life to quiet down after the arrest and conviction of a serial rapist who terrified her university town last summer. Then two young women are brutally slain and the murders bear all the hallmarks of the campus rapist. Did Erin arrest an innocent man? Now her job is at stake and tensions are high and just when it looks like things can't get worse, her department gets the help it needs to solve the double homicide-in the...