Sara Cross disappears in broad daylight, leaving behind a silence that feels engineered. No struggle. No trail. No reason. One moment she’s part of Brent Johnson’s world, and the next she is erased from it.
Brent doesn’t believe in clean vanishings. Not after what he’s seen. Not after who he used to be. The former Special Forces operative feels something shift under his ribs the instant he hears her name, a warning that her disappearance isn’t random… it’s targeted. And it’s meant for him.
When he starts digging, the ground moves.
Clues don’t line up.
Witnesses contradict themselves.
People watch him a little too closely.
Every step into the search feels like stepping onto a stage someone else prepared. Someone who knows exactly how his mind works. Someone who is guiding him toward a truth he isn’t supposed to survive.
As Brent pushes along the Gulf Coast, the line between hunter and hunted blurs. Shadows follow. Messages twist. The trail feels alive. And every instinct tells him the person who took Sara is studying him with the same precision he once used on his enemies.
Sara is out there.
The trap is already built.
And the only way to find her is to walk straight into the darkness meant for him.
A tense, psychological thriller about obsession, manipulation, and the terrifying clarity that comes when you realize the enemy has been inside your head from the start.