The Vanishing Point

A woman steps out of her classroom on a quiet Friday afternoon in the seaside town of Harrow Cove and never comes home. No surveillance footage. No witnesses. No explanation. Detective Elias Ward has seen cases go cold before—he carries the scars of one that nearly ended his career—but nothing like this methodical absence, as if someone with terrifying precision simply subtracted a person from existence. Every lead he follows bends back toward a pattern of vanished lives, and a chilling truth: asking questions may be exactly what gets you erased next.