Romancing the stone: Setting out to rescue her sister, held in Columbia by thugs looking for a priceless jewel, romance novelist Joan Wilder teams up with fortune hunter Jack Colton, who has convinced her to beat the bandits to the treasure. Jewel of the Nile: Bored with life on a yacht, Joan Wilder and Jack Colton find excitement thrust upon them when Joan accepts a speaking engagement in the Middle East and is kidnapped and re-involved with the...

Herb's charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her seventies, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a much-needed sense of contentment. But then Herb and Susan's adult children arrive to stage an...

Joy ride: It's all fun and games when two brothers take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend. But the jokes end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won't give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life. Joy ride 2: Four friends embark on a road trip to Vegas looking for fun and a few cheap thrills, they have no idea that they're about to fall into a blood-drenched charnel...