Paradise Lost

Nikki Roberts' dream of a nightclub in Kenya falters when she is conned, targeted by voodoo attacks, becomes the victim of a botched cesarean, and is thrown in jail on trumped-up charges.

A British couple's Gambian motel dream becomes a nightmare when they are is duped by a fake diamond scam, and he is falsely imprisoned, and convicted after a failed attempt to flee the country.

Mark Seidenfeld thrives in his new job in Kazakhstan. But he ends up slammed into a freezing Siberian prison on trumped-up charges after falling on the wrong side of a local powerbroker who is out for revenge.

After following her heart to a fairytale romance in Mexico, Samantha Lowry ends up in a desperate, six-month cross-border search for her kidnapped newborn when her playboy husband reveals his true colours.

Tom Hargrove's dream life in Colombia becomes a nightmare when he is kidnapped and imprisoned by militant rebels high in the Andes, and kept in captivity for nearly a year.

Cynthia Kiecker and her Mexican husband's Bohemian lives in Chihuahua are turned upside down when they are arrested, tortured, and forced to confess to a series of murders they did not commit.

Canadian Manley Guarducci and his wife are enjoying their new life in the Nicaraguan rainforest when he is suddenly abducted by rebel forces who demand $2 million for his return.

After a whirlwind holiday romance, British teenager Joanne Horsfall moves to Turkey where she gives birth to a son. But her idyllic new life soon becomes a prison. And when she tries to escape she is violently kidnapped.