Baby Grand: 1 (Baby Grand Trilogy)

Runner-up 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition Honorable Mention Genre Fiction 21st Annual Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards A compelling fast-moving contemporary thriller: In Albany New York the governors infant daughter disappears without a trace from her crib at the Executive Mansion. Hours later newly divorced and down-and-out writer Jamie Carter is abducted from the streets of Manhattan. Jamie is whisked upstate where she is forced by her captor Don Bailino an ex-war hero/successful businessman to care for the kidnapped child in a plot to delay the execution of mobster Gino Cataldi - the sixth man to be put to death in six years by hardliner Governor Phillip Grand. What prevails is a modern-day thriller about family ties loyalty murder betrayal and love thats told in deftly interweaving narratives that follow the police investigation of the missing Baby Grand the bad guys who took her and the woman who must find the strength to protect her.