by C. J. Box (2009)
Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
Gerry Boyle
Missy Hewett was a success story in the small town of Prosperity, Maine. She was smart, pleasant--and pregnant in high school. Giving the child up for adoption was the answer, but then Missy decided she wanted her baby back. Both she and reporter Jack McMorrow, writing a story on teen parents, find it's not that simple. And in Missy's case, hunting a baby is a risky business.
Jim Carrington
Joe and Ash are best mates who find a bag filled with £20,000, but by deciding to keep the money, the boys find themselves in much deeper trouble. Suggested level: secondary.
Simon Brett
Blotto and Twinks travel to America! Specifically, they travel to Chicago (and this would be during the Prohibition years) in the hopes of marrying Blotto off to an American heiress and thus saving Tawcester Towers from financial ruin. Thankfully, Twinks is around to nose out the dirty undertakings of the heiress's father, a meat-packing magnate and Chicago mob associate.
Martin Widmark
When the Braeburn family stays at the local hotel and their valuable dog disappears, Jerry and Maya attempt to find the missing dog. When the Braeburn family stays at the local hotel and their valuable dog disappears, Jerry and Maya attempt to find the missing dog. Book #2