Telemystery: NBC To Adapt One Kick by Chelsea Cain for Crime Drama

NBC is developing a crime drama based on a new character created by Chelsea Cain.

Titled One Kick — which is also the title of the first book in the series, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in August 2014 — the storyline is centered on an adult, who was kidnapped as a child and held captive for five years. Here's how the author describes the series:

"Kick Lannigan was abducted at age six and rescued when she was 11. Now she is 21, and she has spent years honing a very special skill set (target shooting, martial arts, archery, lock picking, etc.). If she's ever kidnapped again, it won't be for long.

Kick has an understandable, if somewhat obsessive, interest in missing kids, and she is following the most recent Amber Alert in the news when an enigmatic man named Evans approaches her with a proposition. Evans made a fortune as a weapons dealer and now wants to make good by using his resources to rescue abducted children. With his money and government contacts and Kick's particular brand of expertise, they could make quite a team, he says.

Kick reluctantly agrees, and the two quickly become entangled in a missing kid case in Seattle. But Kick can't quite shake the feeling that Evans isn't who he says he is. SPOILER ALERT: She's right."

Cain wants to reassure fans of her other series — Archie Sheridan and his hunt for serial killer Gretchen Lowell — that it will continue. Once the second book in the "Kick" series is written, she'll alternate between the two.