A race against evil Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage. An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those skills become essential when she discovers an injured passenger, secret government agent Cameron Sumner, separated from the group. Together they follow the hostages, staying one step ahead by staying one step behind. Meanwhile, as news of the hijacking breaks in Washington, the Department of Defense turns to Edward Banner, former military officer and current CEO of a security consulting firm, for help. Banner quickly sends a special task force to the crash site, intent on locating the survivors before it’s too late. But finding Emma and Sumner is only the beginning, as Banner starts to realize that Emma was on a personal mission when the plane went down. There is more to the beautiful, talented biochemist than anyone ever imagined, for in her possession is a volatile biological weapon in an ingenious disguise, one that her enemies have set for auction to the highest bidder. Combining the action-packed plotting of Lee Child and Daniel Silva, and the rich scientific detail of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen, Running from the Devil is a breathtaking debut from a bold and daring new author.

International intrigue and adventure combine in Running Dark, by Jamie Freveletti, the pulse-pounding sequel to Running from the Devil . Bestselling author Lee Child hailed Freveletti’s debut novel as, “Just terrific—full of thrills and tradecraft, pace and peril.” Now she brings back marathon runner and scientist Emma Caldwell in a gripping tale that combines terrorism, Somali pirates, and a possible chemical catastrophe as it races at breakneck speed into the most dangerous places in the world.

“One of the top thriller writers working today. With crisp writing, clever plotting, and memorable characters, this one will satisfy even the most finicky of readers.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key Tess Gerritsen praised former Chicago lawyer-turned-writer Jamie Freveletti’s stunning debut thriller, Running from the Devil as “a breathless, hair-raising read,” and author Lee Child called it, “just terrific.” Now, with The Ninth Day, Freveletti brings back her courageous and brilliant series protagonist Emma Caldridge for a third time—ensnaring the intrepid biochemist and marathon runner in the vicious web of a Mexican drug cartel determined to carry a terrible, virulent death across the border into the United States. A rapidly rising star in contemporary thriller fiction, Jaimie Freveletti fills her remarkable suspense novels with the explosive, non-stop action of a Daniel Silva adventure and the fascinating scientific detail of a Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell blockbuster. And The Ninth Day is Freveletti’s best so far.

"One of the top thriller writers working today….A master." —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key A former Chicago trial lawyer-turned-critically acclaimed thriller writer, Jaime Freveletti hit the ground running with her debut novel, Running from the Devil—winning a Thriller and a Barry Award and nominations for the Macavity and Crimespree Awards as well. With her fourth novel, Dead Asleep, Freveletti proves she hasn't let up for an instant, plunging her brilliant, tough-as-nails series protagonist, biochemist Emma Caldridge, into a Caribbean island nightmare of voodoo superstition, terrorist plots, and deadly plague. Dead Asleep is intelligent, action-packed suspense fiction—rich in invention and frightening scientific plausibility—that will enthrall fans of Lee Child and Daniel Silva, and Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen readers equally.

When biochemist Emma Caldridge applies for kidnapping insurance, it's denied. Sebastian Ryan, the risk analyst for the insurance company, takes one look at her history of winding up in the wrong place at the wrong time and deems her a "statistical nightmare." But for Ryan the nightmare is just beginning, and he'll need Caldridge's assistance if he's going to survive.

Sebastian Ryan, a risk analyst, has disappeared. Emma Caldridge saved him once, and in a moment of foresight he's left a note asking her to save him again. And she knows where to look. Driving into Sunrise City, Utah, a town controlled by a fundamentalist cult, she's already picked up a tail—from the local sheriff. As Emma begins to track Ryan's kidnappers, she learns that Sunrise City's outwardly pious appearance hides a dark secret, and when she derails an unspeakable ritual, she sets the entire town against her.

Emma Caldridge has tracked down risk analyst Sebastian Ryan's kidnappers to the benign-looking town of Sunrise City, Utah. But beneath the city's pristine surface, a bizarre and insular cult operates in full force. Somehow, Emma must find a way to infiltrate the compound, save Ryan, and get them both out of there . . . preferably alive.

When billionaire CEO Jackson Rand invites chemist Emma Caldridge on a humanitarian mission to deliver vaccines to villages in Africa, she jumps at the chance. But two weeks into the mission Emma, Rand, and his secretary are ambushed on the road to Dakar by a crew of assassins. When Emma drills Rand, he admits that he feared just such an attack, because the US government had hired Rand's company to secure the last known vials of live smallpox virus, and several insurgent groups were seeking it for use as a biological weapon. He tells her that some of the smallpox vials were found hidden among the vaccines, but claims to have contained them all. Emma calls Edward Banner, a defense contractor, for assistance and he relays some additional frightening news—three different insurgent groups are massing at the borders all around them, burning villages and kidnapping any Westerners in their path. Surrounded and with no way to break through to Dakar, Emma heads toward a refugee camp on the border, finding and freeing enslaved hostages along the route, and enraging the insurgents, who begin tracking her. While on the road, she discovers that a smallpox vial is close, the insurgents know it, and soon she's leading a ragtag group north through the Sahara Desert in a desperate bid to keep the vial safe and to reach Morocco and freedom.