Vanishing Point

A grief counselor. A stranger who knows too much. And a daughter who came back wrong. Dr. Diane Mercer has spent seven years learning to live with what her daughter became after she disappeared for three weeks at seventeen. Mara came home. Physically unharmed. Largely intact. But different - in a way Diane has never been able to name, and Mara has never been willing to explain. Then a new patient walks into Diane's office. He says he's grieving someone. He won't say who. But in their second session, he describes a pale blue coat, a Tuesday morning, and a shortcut through a park that was never made public - details from Mara's disappearance that exist in no file, no article, no record that anyone outside the investigation could have read. He knows what happened to Mara. And he came to Diane on purpose. As Diane begins to unravel who her patient really is - and what he knows - she will discover that Mara's silence was never about trauma. It was about something far more dangerous. Something her daughter has been quietly building toward for seven years, alone, in the only way available to her. Perfect for readers of Lisa Jewell, Freida McFadden, and Riley Sager.