Series Complete: Binge read today!
He gave up his daughter years ago, but now he’ll risk his life to save hers.
Alex Mercer is no stranger to kidnappings. The emotional scars still run deep from his sister’s disappearance years earlier. His daughter Ariana remains safe long after her adoption, and he cherishes the few times a year he gets to see her. The joy is palpable when he takes her on … palpable when he takes her on their first one-on-one outing. At least until he pauses to answer a text and Ariana disappears…
Wracked with guilt and determined to find answers, Alex teams up with an unlikely ally at the police department. As the clues reveal a pattern of missing girls, the kidnapping case becomes a race against time to save Ariana. What cost is Alex willing to pay to keep his daughter alive?
Girl in Trouble is the first book in a series of thrilling stand-alone novels spun off from the USA Today bestselling Gone Trilogy. If you like heart-pounding suspense, page-turning action, and characters you’ll never forget, then you’ll love Stacy Claflin’s engrossing new series.
Read Girl in Trouble today!
THE COMPLETE ALEX MERCER SERIES:
Girl in Trouble
Turn Back Time
Little Lies
Against All Odds
Don’t Forget Me
Tainted Love
Take On Me
Danger Zone
Lady in Red
White Wedding
Careless Whisper
Never Surrender
SIDE STORIES:
The Gone Trilogy
No Return
Dean’s List
OTHER CLAFLIN THRILLERS:
The Brannon House Series
Lies Never Sleep
Dex
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE:
When Tomorrow Starts Without Me
The Only Things You Can Take
When You Start to Miss Me
more
This is the best book I’ve read in some time!
I couldn’t put it down!
Love this author. Got a few more books by Stacy as well. All very good. Easy reads.
Frightening to think these things actually happen….great story.
You go Dad. He wasn’t thought much of by the people of the town and some family, but he didn’t give up to find his daughter. Enjoyed very much.
Very well written book I couldn’t stop reading it liked thebwholw book and the ending
Really strange ending, spooky,
Riveting read and hard to put down.
i loved this book
Weird. Dragged out and terrible ending.
The characters in this book were realistic and interesting. Close to the end it became a bit predictable however it held my attention
great book, a real page turner…realistic characters.. you won’t be sorry you took the time to read it
Good book wasn’t sure who did it
I like it, made want read more of this author
Lousy; Protagonist unlikable. Plot stereotyped.
I read a lot of mystery books and will follow this writer. Definitely kept my interest. I had to keep reading until the book was finished. Not one you could read a chapter or two and plan on picking up later. Nope, read all the way through.
Enjoyed
A great read,
I liked this book. The descriptions were so good I felt like I could actually see the people and places described. There was no bad language and no sex scenes and that is a big plus for me. The story was good. The characters were good. I would have given this book a 5 star rating except there was something just a little off kilter to me. Sometimes the characters acted in a way that, to me, didn’t seem like something they would do. But it all worked out and it was still good.
Alex Mercer had a daughter at a very young age. Leaving her to be raised by his ex girlfriend Zoey’s parents, Alex starts a string of dead end jobs and a lot of drinking. After a night out with his daughter Ariana, she gets kidnapped. In the snap of an instant between eyes shifting from his phone to the doorway, Ariana is gone. Alex chases after the perp and gives a very accurate description to the police. Knowing that the first 48 hours are the most crucial in a kidnapping, Alex is working hard to try to help the police chief Nick, and the FBI find his daughter.
Ariana is a very intelligent girl who knows to play along with her kidnapper. She is just one of very well written characters in this fast paced, suspenseful book in a race to find Ariana before the kidnapper gets rid of her. Claflin wrote this book to be read as a standalone, which I greatly appreciate, but also left it so there could be more in the series. The only thing I struggled with in the book was the level of distrust the FBI had with the police chief Nick, the witness id and footage of the perpetrator. The level of unwillingness to even bend slightly as Nick brought forward crucial pieces of information made it a bit frustrating, but that leaves the reader even more worried about little Ariana, so it works well as an insanely suspenseful book.