kidnapping novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “kidnapping”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• He Sacrificed Our Son, But Won't Let Me Go
  

  In a burning warehouse, mafia underboss Vincent Saraceno was told he could carry out one boy. He picked his nephew and never looked at his own son. Nine days later his wife serves him divorce papers at a birthday party, and he refuses to sign.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Stole Her for a Breeding Den, She Chose the Alpha Who Let Her Leave
  

  A small, timid werewolf is taken from a bakery lot by five men of a crime family who mean to breed her at the full moon, and one of them unlocks the door and lets her walk out.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Took Me to Catch the Rat, But the Rat Was Him
  

  On Christmas Eve, Cathal Dwyer takes Aisling Mulcahy out of her church choir loft to hold her until her father comes home to a Philadelphia Irish mob's Table, and Aisling finds out that the traitor the family has hunted for six years is the man who is keeping her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• He Caged Me for Fifteen Years
  

  On the day she turns eighteen, the president's daughter of the Ashgrove Wolves is dragged into a basement, the wolf cut off her back, and told she owes fifteen years. Nobody comes for her, and the reason is her own father.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• My Husband Dismissed Seven Ransom Calls as AI
  

  A pregnant music teacher is kidnapped, and the kidnapper phones her surgeon husband seven times. His head nurse answers every call and swears it is the AI scam from the hospital warning. When a truck throws the wife onto his operating table, he does not know her face.

  medical · dramatic · contemporary

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Three Hybrid Brothers Locked Me in Their Tower, and the Man Who Sent Me There Is the Real Monster
  

  When the Maine town of Port Ravensmere draws her name in a hat and gives her to the three raven-blooded MacNaughton brothers, Dally Pinkham strikes the line through the minutes in front of two hundred people and walks to their boat herself.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• I Stripped to Keep My Boyfriend in School, and He Sold Me to the Man My Brother Died Owing
  

  Iris Aalto danced Friday nights at a Duluth supper club to pay her boyfriend's tuition, and he sold her marker to the club's book. The man who carries her out of the trunk is her dead brother's best friend, and he will not say why he took her.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• The Pawn
  

  A mafia boss claims a pastry cook as his bride, and enemies steal her from the altar before he can finish the vow.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Mob Boss Said My Father Owed Him a Life, So He Took Mine to Keep
  

  A Providence ferry deckhand is claimed off the dock by the mob boss whose brother died the week her father vanished with the family's books, and the books are on her own boat.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• They Kidnapped the Wrong Boy, So He Stayed
  

  A broke student and a hospital doctor are snatched on the same night by two mafia CEOs who are sure they are thieves. The student is the wrong boy, the one CEO knows it in a week, and he doesn't let go.

  contemporary · dark romance · fake relationship

  24 chapters published

• My Loving Family Paid to Destroy Me
  

  Nolan is finally rescued after five years in a cellar, and the wife who carried him out calmly says she hired his kidnappers. She will not say why, and his loving family is already waiting with a lawyer.

  dramatic · contemporary · male lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Seven Years of Blind Love
  

  Maite loved Federico for seven years, until he refused to pay her ransom and asked for her to be frightened for another week. When he comes back on his knees, she already has the recording and a gala with a thousand witnesses.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  12 chapters published

• When I Flash-Married a Billionaire, My Ex Went on a Hunger Strike
  

  Thrown away by her father and her fiance the night she escaped a kidnapping, Mina marries a surgeon before breakfast, hides the fortune they think she lost, and takes it all back in public.

  contemporary · female lead · inheritance war

  24 chapters published

• The Mafia's Forbidden Captive
  

  An ER nurse goes to a Washington garage with her father's gun to kill the mafia boss she blames for her sister's death, saves his life instead, and is kept in his house.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Return of the Reaper
  

  A retired assassin who promised his dying wife he would never kill again takes the vow apart with his bare hands when a crime family steals his six-year-old daughter.

  dramatic · contemporary · thriller

  24 chapters published

• Rise of the Phoenix
  

  Emmi MacDiarmid burns her way out of a shifter lab with an ancient phoenix inside her, and the only man who can touch her fire is the frozen prisoner from the next cell.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Heiress Strikes Back
  

  Kidnapped as a baby and worked as a maid by the family that took her, Miranda walks into her birth parents' luncheon and finds a fake heiress in her chair.

  contemporary · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Dominated by My Dad's Boss
  

  Bron asks a stranger at a kink party to teach her to dominate, then learns he is the man buying her father's company, while the family friend who has kept her mother captive for fifteen years circles to make the daughter his next.

  contemporary · forbidden love · female lead

  24 chapters published

• He Ransomed His Secret Son and Left Our Daughter
  

  The Russians took two children and offered to give one back, and her husband paid for the mistress's son. The five-year-old he left behind has three days of insulin, and the woman he thought was nobody is the lost daughter of the most feared man in New York.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

• The Demonic Cult Took the Wrong Disciple
  

  The Heavenly Demon raided the Righteous Alliance for its prodigy and tore off the silver mask to find his plain, sharp-tongued senior brother instead. The Demon smiled. The senior brother started planning his escape.

  redemption arc · male lead · manhwa romance

  24 chapters published

• I Kidnapped the Mafia Heir, and He Never Tried to Escape
  

  A bounty hunter snatches the mob heir to trade for her kid brother, and the man chained to her father's boat winch lets her keep him there for his own reasons.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

• I Thought Love Had to Be Earned Through Chores, They Hugged Me
  

  Taken at three and rented out to seven households, ten-year-old Minnie greets the rich mother who finally finds her with a handwritten price list. Her family doesn't know how to love her, the adopted daughter wants her gone, and the woman who leased her out always knew where the searchers were going next.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• I Accidentally Seduced Hades
  

  Aphrodite's best cupid was sent to shoot the god of death so he'd fall for the goddess. She refused, the arrow flew anyway, and Hades looked straight at her.

  contemporary · female lead · soapy

  32 chapters published

• Watching My Fake Sister Dig Her Own Grave
  

  The people who stole me broke my legs at four and took my eye at seven. On my first night home, the girl who'd been living my life pushed me down the stairs, and I let her, because I know she's been paying them to keep me lost.

  contemporary · female lead · kidnapping

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Mom Abandoned Me to Save Herself
  

  When the mob convoy came up the mountain to rescue my mother, she kicked me into the dirt and had me locked in a dog cage. In my sock I had the paper that proved the man holding her was the one who sold her.

  dramatic · contemporary · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Stand-In Wife and His Only Obsession
  

  The night before her arranged wedding, my sister woke up reborn and screaming that the billionaire was a monster. Then reader comments started floating in front of my eyes, so I put on my NYPD jacket and went to marry him myself.

  contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy

  32 chapters published

• The Name on the Broadcast
  

  Twenty years after my mother died, the campus radio read out a missing college girl's name. It was my mother's name, and I was the four-year-old who held her legs the day she tried to run.

  dramatic · contemporary · secret parentage

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 365 Days, Zero Missed Calls
  

  For a whole year her family looked straight through her. The night she rode away, nobody called, and the only one who noticed was the man hunting her.

  dramatic · contemporary · misunderstanding

  16 chapters published