18 books like The Sheik

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Destroyer Angel Nevada Barr · 2014 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate After a summer fighting wildfire, park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying a weekend away camping in Minnesota's National Park with her girlfriends. Leah Hendricks is the genius behind a high-end sports gear manufacturer and Heath Jarrod has volunteered to test out some of the equipment. But when they encounter a band of violent kidnappers little do they realise that their ultimate challenge will be… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

Saint Ted Dekker · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate I know a few things about myself. I know that my name is Carl. My wife is Kelly. I love her more than my own life. If she told me to kill you, I would. I’m a captive, deep inside Hungary – no one knows I’m here. I can put a bullet into a ten-inch target at 3,000 yards. They tell me that I’m the best sniper in the world. Sometimes I sit in my dark hole for days without moving so that they don’t… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

Lincoln Park Vin Smith · 2003 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate V. J. Dixon was a playful sort, and the Labor Day weekend would be a perfect time to bond with his two sons, Jeff and Tyler. Dixon's new girlfriend, Mariel Hartman, had slipped seamlessly into the lives of the Dixon's; all three still smarting from the untimely "cafe coronary" death of wife and mother Sharon Dixon. A treasure hunt, promising to be a centerpiece of the three-day end-of-summer… Shares: Kidnapping, Romance

Let's Go 2003 Let's Go, Inc. · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Guidebooks, Egypt

The Beetle. A Mystery Richard Marsh · 1897 · ★ 3.5 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Beetle, written in 1897 by British author Richard Marsh, is a classic gothic horror story set in Victorian London. The book follows the characters of Paul Lessingham, Robert Holt, Sydney Atherton, Marjorie Lindon and Augustus Champnell all having a different encounter with the Beetle, a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian creature that seeks revenge for wrongs done in Egypt two decades before. Shares: Egypt, British, Classic Literature

Never look away Linwood Barclay · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 423p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In this tense, mesmerizing thriller by Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of Fear the Worst and Too Close to Home, a man's life unravels around him when the unthinkable strikes.A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife, Jan, and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

Sandstorm James Rollins · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 516p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Nationally bestselling author James Rollins has transported readers to the dark heart of the Amazon, the bowels of the earth, far below the ocean, and the top of the world. Now he embarks upon his most gripping and terrifying adventure yet: to a nightmare buried beneath a treacherous desert wasteland. An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum -- a devastating… Shares: British, Missing persons

The Taking of Libbie, SD David Housewright · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In David Housewright's The Taking of Libbie, SD, a grifter cons an entire town using Mac McKenzie's name, leaving the real McKenzie facing an angry town with nothing left to lose.Rushmore McKenzie is a retired cop, an unexpected millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed private investigator. So, it isn't the biggest surprise in the world when he's attacked and kidnapped from his home—McKenzie has… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

Wicked Widow Jayne Ann Krentz · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Madeline Deveridge is all too aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But Madeline has a far more pressing problem than being called the Wicked Widow. She fears that she and her beloved aunt are being haunted! Shares: Historical Romance, Romance

On the Razor's Edge Michael Flynn · 2013 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In Michael Flynn's thrilling space opera, On the Razor's Edge, the secret war among the Shadows of the Name is escalating, and there are hints that it is not so secret as the Shadows had thought. The scarred man, Donovan buigh, half honored guest and half prisoner, is carried deeper into the Confederation, all the way to Holy Terra herself, to help plan the rebel assault on the Secret City. If… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

The Third Circle:(Arcane Society, #4) Jayne Ann Krentz · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Called "supremely addictive" by Booklist, the Arcane Society novels, written under both the Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz names, have pulled readers into a saga filled with steamy romance, drama, and dark intrigue. Her newest novel promises to mesmerize as well. Leona Hewitt, disguised in men's formal evening clothes, has secretly made her way into Lord Delbridge's private museum to retrieve… Shares: Historical Romance, Romance

Mischief Jayne Ann Krentz · 1996 · ★ 2.7 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron. That's why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap? Her scheme is simple, really: She plans to let it be known that when… Shares: Historical Romance, Romance

The Butterfly Garden Dot Hutchison · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

Second Sight Jayne Ann Krentz · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Financially straitened and on the path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization, founded two centuries earlier by an alchemist. And the alchemist's descendant-her employer, Gabriel Jones-has… Shares: Historical Romance, Romance

Come to Castlemoor Jennifer Wilde · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Kathy Hunt came to Castlemoor when she got the news of her brother's sudden and tragic death. The shadow of Castlemoor fell ominously across the moors. Every soul seemed to live in terror. When Kathy found that her brother's life work - a study of bloody, primitive rites, once performed on these very moors - had disappeared, she vowed to find the manuscript and complete his book. But strange… Shares: Historical Romance, Romance

Northern Lights Philip Pullman · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

The Mad Wife Meagan Church · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and the lies we live.They called it hysteria. She called it survival.Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the perfect 1950s housewife.… Shares: Romance

The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick Ariel Lawhon NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history."Fans of… Shares: Romance

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