When a beloved magician vanishes after a children’s birthday party, private investigator Sloane Merritt is pulled into a new case that feels anything but festive. A single father has disappeared without warning—his young daughter left waiting.
As Sloane searches for answers, she uncovers a man with two identities, a past he’s been running from, and someone who may be closing in. What begins as a missing persons case spirals into something more dangerous—where guilt is layered, and protection can look a lot like betrayal.
Meanwhile, a cold thread from Sloane’s own life pulls tighter. A demolished school. A forgotten name. And a quiet lead that might bring her one step closer to the truth about Eden Pike.
With the clock ticking and loyalties shifting, Sloane is forced to confront the line between justice and consequence—while protecting the one person who can’t afford to be lost.
M.K. Quinn is a Georgia-based author, armchair detective, and lifelong observer of the shadows between ordinary life and the mysteries that lurk beneath it. A self-professed missing-persons obsessive, she has spent years studying real cases, investigative techniques, and the emotional toll of unresolved disappearances—passions that fuel every page of the Sloane Merritt Missing Persons Series. When she’s not writing twisty, character-driven thrillers, M.K. lives in Atlanta with her endlessly supportive husband and their three mischievous cats, who firmly believe they’re her true co-authors. View all by M.K. Quinn
