Ex-FBI agent Steve Vail, fired for insubordination, is asked to help break a shadowy extortion group that is demanding money from the FBI to stop killing.

The illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Moreland, Maggie Windham leads a dignified life until someone steals her personal letters, and to stave off blackmail she turns to investigator Benjamin Hazlit for help.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Hilary Blum, a determined but down-on-her-luck single mother caring for a special needs son, becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried.

"When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls' weekend in Vegas, she's prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn't come back to the hotel room. And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe's phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why. What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe--and...

Harvard professor Wilson Chaney is in a comprising position. His marriage, his reputation, and his career are all being held hostage. Chaney needs Carlotta's help to ferret out the blackmailer and retrieve the last of the incriminating love letters he sent freshman student Denali Brinkman-before she committed suicide in a Memorial Drive boathouse. It's a nasty bit of business, but Carlotta reluctantly agrees to help the dishonorable mentor. However,...

Hollywood film detective and film archivist Valentino becomes embroiled in the murder of a blackmailer in this wacky comedic murder romp.

The rules don't apply to two businessmen who will stop at nothing to keep control of the fates that await them. While small-business owner Felicito Yanaque stands tall in the face of blackmail, Lima businessman Ismael Carrera prepares to teach his worthless sons a lesson: Never try to get your old man killed.

For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel...

After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves.