Title: Ransom - Danielle Steel - book
Summary :
Since her husband's disappearance, Fernanda Barnes has been living a nightmare: now alone to raise her three children, she can no longer afford the piling up bills. Indeed, even though in everyone's eyes Allan Barnes was at the head of an immense fortune, no one knows that he died ruined, leaving nothing but debt as his inheritance.
Fernanda is far from imagining that the well-kept secret of this bankruptcy will have terrible consequences for her family, that she will have to face seasoned and unscrupulous gangsters. And despite the help of the FBI, tragedy will occur: the odious kidnapping of her little boy...
Only the presence of Ted Lee of the San Francisco police will bring him comfort and friendship in this critical situation.