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Author
Publisher
Forged In Words Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Truth About Sex Trafficking tells the story of Angela before, during and after she was the victim of sex trafficking. As a child, Angela experienced every imaginable type of child abuse. At the age of seventeen, she was a perfect target when sex traffickers entered her life. By the time she realized what was happening, Angela was "way deep in the game" and didn't know how to get out. Her situation continued to worsen for almost two years, until...
Author
Series
Blue justice volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past year Chloe St. John has been working as a K-9 cop with her German shepherd partner, Hank. Now a serious case of human trafficking with connections to her missing cousin just landed in her lap. When US Marshall Blake MacCallum's daughter goes missing, he's ordered to kill the judge he's protecting and tell no one about his daughter's disappearance or she will die. When their cases cross, will they be able to trust each other? -- adapted...
Author
Series
New York confidential volume 3
Language
English
Description
Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While a young girl, Tupa was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. She was transported from the point of her abduction on a remote farm near the Namibian-Angolan border and channeled to her ultimate destination in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Her three-year odyssey exposes the brutal horrors of a modern day middle passage....
7) Stolen souls
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Galya Petrova fights her way out of a Belfast brothel, killing one of her captors, she seeks refuge with a man who turns out to be a serial killer, while Detective Inspector Jack Lennon looks into a gang war that was triggered by Galya.
Author
Publisher
TFCB, Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Takes a hard look at human trafficking, identifying perpetrators and telling the stories of victims through their own words. You'll discover why some people become vulnerable to trafficking and you'll read about what their lives are like on a daily basis. You'll also meet some of the courageous individuals and organizations working to free people from lives in bondage so that, in the words of US president Barack Obama, each person can "forge a life...
9) Bare it all
Author
Series
Love undercover volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After taking down a ruthless human trafficker, Alice Appleton fears retaliation and tries to hide her past from her neighbor, Detective Reese Bareden, but they are soon drawn into a deadly maze of corruption, intrigue, and desire.
10) Dead on arrival
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to pay off gambling debts, Dawn and Reese Spencer get drawn into a lucrative illegal-immigrant-smuggling ring, but after several immigrants turn up dead on arrival and Reese bets more than he can ever repay, the Feds and cold-blooded loan sharks begin closing in.
Author
Series
Cincinnati volume 2
Publisher
Signet Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Homicide Detective Scarlett Bishop has seen enough bad guys slip through the cracks and innocent victims go unavenged to know that good doesn't always prevail. So far she's been able to lock away her rage and her vigilante fantasies. That lock is about to break. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives of two orphan girls, one from the Caucasus who is sold into the sex trade, the other who is adopted into the wealthy Zane family of New York, whose unwitting involvement in the world of international crime precipitates their downfall.
13) The water keeper
Author
Series
Murphy Shepherd volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
14) Wrath
Author
Series
Faith McMann volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Those who hunt monsters must be careful not to become monsters themselves. Inanother life, before human traffickers murdered her husband and stole her children, Faith McMann was a wife, mother, and teacher. Now she has become Furious, a merciless avenger on a deadly mission to retrieve her young son and daughter, no matter the cost. Aided by unlikely but steadfast allies, the giant Beast and fragile Rage, Faith plunges ever deeper into a sickening...
15) Furious
Author
Series
Faith McMann volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Faith McMann comes home to a nightmare: her husband is killed and her son and daughter are taken. Although the intruders leave her for dead, she survives. Crippling grief and fear for her children make life unbearable. Until her anguish turns to anger--and she trades victimhood for vengeance.
Author
Series
Murphy Shepherd volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
He shows up when all hope is lost. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of finding those no one else could - survivors of human trafficking. His life's mission is helping others find freedom. But then the nightmare strikes too close to home. When his new wife, her daughter, and two other teenage girls are stolen, Murphy is left questioning all he has thought to be true. With more dead ends than leads, he has no idea how to find those he loves. After...
17) One minute out
Author
Series
Gray man volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Is it ever the wrong time to do the right thing? I am Court Gentry. In my time, I've seen plenty of bad stuff. Some things worse than others, but nothing that can match this horror show. I was on a simple mission in Bosnia. A bad guy needed to be put down; in and out, no problem. But then I stumbled across a nightmare--a room full of women and children who were being trafficked to rich scum. Since then, I've been tracking their smuggling ring around...
18) Trade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A young girl is kidnapped and taken into the sex trade, and her brother teams up with a cop to try and find her.
19) A false dawn
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O'Brien feels like he's been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. What he discovers there, however, opens a dark door to something more frightening than anything he ever investigated in Miami.
20) Kill for me
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Susannah and Luke risk everything to stop murderous human traffickers of young girls, an endeavor that brings Susannah closer to discovering the truth about her mysterious past.
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