Ransom is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in February 2004.

[1] Peter Morgan is released from a Californian prison after four years with plans to make up to the daughters he left behind.

In San Francisco, a police detective Ted Lee arrives home to a wife he no longer loves.

In the Pacific Heights neighbourhood, Fernanda Barnes cries at the amount of debt her husband has left her and his children in after his death.

Soon, all their lives are connected as Fernanda's child is kidnapped and held for the ransom of a fortune that she does not have.