The Girl Who Vanished Twice
A Cold Case Romance

About this book:

Maya Lin built a hit podcast investigating other people's ghosts. Now she's chasing her own. Twenty-two years after fourteen-year-old Chloe Danvers stepped out her bedroom window into the Blackwood fog and vanished without a trace, Maya returns to the pine-choked Minnesota town she fled—microphones in hand, a cold case to crack, and a producer demanding she "agitate the waters." But Blackwood doesn't take kindly to having its laundry aired. The motel clerk warns her off. The retired sheriff won't talk. And someone has just slipped a warm cassette tape under her door labeled *PLAY ME FIRST, MAYA*.

The tape is only the first frequency in a signal Maya thought she'd left behind: Sam Burke, the boy who stayed when she ran, now running his father's garage at the edge of the woods where Chloe was last seen. As Maya digs through buried evidence and fractured memories, the line between investigation and obsession blurs. Every witness has a half-truth. Every landmark hides a lie. And the deeper she tunes into the static of that October night, the clearer it becomes—someone in Blackwood has been waiting for her to press play.

Atmospheric and pulse-pounding, *The Girl Who Vanished Twice* is a cold-case thriller that crackles with the tension of a love that never got closure and a mystery that refuses to stay buried. Perfect for fans of *The Only One Left* and *The Last Thing He Told Me*, this is a story about the frequencies we can't escape—and the voices that call us home.