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Author
Series
Deep Haven volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years after being relocated through the Witness Security Program, Annalise Decker must face her past when the man she testified against is released on parole and bent on revenge.
Author
Series
Melody Grace McCartney novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
23) Forged in love
Author
Series
Wyoming Sunrise volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After surviving a brutal stagecoach robbery, Mariah Stover attempts to rebuild her life as she takes over her father's blacksmith business, but the townspeople meet her work with disdain. She is drawn to the new diner owner as he faces similar trials in the town. When danger descends upon them, will they survive to build a life forged in love?" --
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces, and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nicki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors' daughter in witness protection, but she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family's security comes from her own past.
26) Five strangers
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a warm Valentine's Day, a quarrel breaks out on London's crowded Hampstead Heath. The argument becomes violent and suddenly escalates to murder/suicide. Or so five strangers who see the incident believe. But when one of them, disgraced journalist Jen Hunter, begins to question what she thought she saw, the witnesses' lives unravel and the crime is revealed as more terrible than anyone imagined.
Author
Series
Marshall Grade novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Ben Sanders's American Blood, a former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman; film rights sold to Warner Bros with Bradley Cooper attached to star and produce.
After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract
28) Dangerous lies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing a murder, high school senior Stella Gordon is sent to Nebraska for her own safety where she chafes at her protection, but when she meets Chet Falconer it becomes harder for her to keep her guard up, and soon she has to deal with the real threat to her life as her enemies are actually closer than she thinks.
29) No plan B
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
"The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. The plan: It's coming Fall 2022. No Plan B. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts. One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what actually happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving...
32) Whispers
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When her father decides to run for governor of Oregon, Claire St. John is forced to confront long-buried secrets as she copes with unexpected feelings for Kane Moran, a handsome journalist with a grudge, who threatens to tell all.
33) Deputized
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Frank Whittaker is just an unemployed trail hand trying to recover from a night of celebration when he witnesses a bank robbery and is deputized into a posse to track the outlaws. Frank is reluctant and resentful until he finds a way to make money at it by signing on as a guide for a U.S. marshal in pursuit of the same bank robbers, Dandy Jim Beudreaux and his gang. Marshal Dayton Howard and his manhunters leave a bloody trail in their pursuit of...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
There she sits, the girl on the train. What she sees gazing out the window, will change everything. Every day the same. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She looks forward to it. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She had the perfect life. She had the perfect cover. She was the perfect witness. Until they found her. From the blockbuster bestselling author of the Eve Duncan novels comes a new, stand alone thriller about a woman with a photographic memory who has lived her life in the Witness Protection Program. What she once saw put her entire family in jeopardy and now, years later, her cover is blown. She's on the run, and the lives of those she holds dear...
36) Inside the wolf
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After her academic career in New York flames out, Rachel Ruskin returns to her family's tobacco farm in North Carolina and is haunted by memories and by her hometown's buried history of racism and violence. When a child is accidentally shot and killed, Rachel can no longer avoid confronting her own past wrongs; nor can she continue to hold herself apart from her community"--
37) Fatal witness
Author
Series
Pearl River volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Although she witnessed the murder of her parents 25 years ago, Dani Bennett has no memory of the event. However, it's clear that the killer remembers her when she returns to Pearl Springs in search of answers. Local K-9 Deputy Mark Lassiter is determined to protect her but who will protect her heart?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls "razor sharp," a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when she draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a bad father,...
39) The burning edge
Author
Series
Jack Gannon thrillers volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing an armored car heist that left four people dead, Lisa Palmer becomes the FBI's key to finding the fugitive killers, a hunt led by an embattled FBI agent as a relentless journalist makes his own investigation.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A sentient AI determines that all humans must be eliminated as the root of climate change and leaves a woman named Sen as a "witness" to record her observations on the end of humanity as the world begins to rewild.
A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel--only for it to fall in love with the novel's subject, Sen, the last human on Earth. Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental...
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