The Kidnap Index

In a city where abductions are licensed and ransoms trade like stocks on a public exchange, elite appraiser Lena Ashworth built her career pricing strangers' lives — until the market claims her own husband. With a 72-hour countdown ticking and the Exchange's algorithms working against her, Lena must navigate brokers, informants, and buyers to win him back, only to discover the abduction was never random at all.