Bøker av Larissa Self

Billy Watts and his team are determined to put an end to human trafficking. However, the traffickers are equally persistent in their endeavors to preserve their lucrative business of selling human beings. The war between the two sides has been nonstop, and though there have been numerous victories over the years, the team's fortitude is failing.While home for a much-needed break, Billy gets drawn into another case, one that could be his toughest yet. A fourteen-year-old girl has gone missing, and the perpetrators this time are two billionaires, Bode Horowitz and Sebastian Drakos. The silken web of depravity these two men have spun has been impenetrable. Surrounded by influential friends of great wealth, authority, and intelligence, the elite pedophiles have been allowed to travel openly with their victims. The fact that they believe themselves to be untouchable enrages Billy, and he calls his team together once more--this time, stateside.A plan devised to chip away at the world of horrors these billionaires have created has Billy and his team going after Horowitz's right-hand man, Mark Kennedy. A family man himself with two teenage girls, Mark has been indulging in the same perversion as his boss...and all without his wife's and daughters' knowledge. What Billy thinks is a race against time for one missing fourteen-year-old girl turns out to be a deadly race to save a pedophile's family.

Angie Nuland had worked a nine-month internship at the British Museum after she graduated from UCLA. Years later, she's excited to share her experiences with her daughters Savannah and Macy and her husband, Rick. The Nulands' travel plans include a five-day trip to France before heading to the United Kingdom. On their last night in Paris, an innocent mishap with their youngest daughter initiates a devastating chain of events that changes the family's life forever.Five years have passed, and Savannah's fate comes to light. After years of grooming, she is auctioned to a Middle Eastern man who then gives her as a gift to Ali, his youngest of three sons. Aware of the brothers' heinous treatment toward the women owned by them, Savannah anticipates her death and even welcomes it, if only to end her suffering. That is, until she meets Ali's younger sister, Faizal. A bond between the two young women is formed, giving Savannah a reason to live. However, the rift between Ali and his brother, Omari, is heightened when Savannah's beauty is unveiled. Jealousy, rage, and family honor put Savannah's life on borrowed time.

THE RILEY COOPER SERIES OF HOPE Book Two Nearly a year has passed since the human race had been decimated by an unknown virus. With her husband's whereabouts still unknown and the world no longer familiar to her, Riley Cooper, along with her family, find solace within their community of friends now living in Jackson, Wyoming. Fully aware that the longevity of their survival will largely depend on the growth of their community, the inhabitants of Jackson begin their search for other survivors. In doing so, they discover the terrifying truth of what humanity has become, leaving Riley and her family faced with the unimaginable possibility that hope is lost.

A deadly virus is raging war on the human race, and the CDC and its global partners can't stop it. When patient zero enters the United States from China via San Francisco with a connecting flight to Boston, no one is aware of the pandemic he has unleashed in the country. Riley Cooper and her teenagers leave California in the early hours of the morning bound for Utah, on what was to be a month-long vacation at her parents' home. During the first six hours of her drive, Riley feels something is wrong but can't quite put her finger on it. Pulling over in Saint George for food and gas, she and her kids find the world they knew has begun to unravel. In its wake-good, decent, law-abiding citizens have become their own worst nightmares by committing the most vile and heinous crimes. Riley's only mission is to ensure a future for her children in a world that doesn't want them to have one. Through the midst of all the terror and horrors of the world, Riley is reintroduced to the one true God and the resounding love He has for her family and the people that have joined them. Because of Him, hope is more than just a word; it is the new foundation for the world that lies before them.