The Influencer Who Vanished on Purpose
A thriller

About this book:

Five million followers watched Chloe Vance build an empire on oat-milk lattes, linen smocks, and the promise of digital peace. Then she vanished—leaving behind a locked front door, a parked car, and a phone still humming with scheduled posts. Her brother hires Maya Lin, a broke digital forensics analyst who survives on cold cases and overdue invoices, to find her before the sponsors pull out and the stock tanks. Maya expects a missing persons case. She finds a military-grade wipe of Chloe's cloud history, an encrypted archive sent at 3:00 a.m., and an IP trail routed through Zurich and Oakland. Someone didn't just make Chloe disappear. They're erasing her.

The deeper Maya digs, the darker the "wellness" brand becomes. Ghost subscribers. Shell companies. A retreat center that doesn't exist on any map. And a typed note slipped under Chloe's gate with Maya's name on it—delivered by a driverless sedan forty-five minutes after Maya took the case. In a world where every like is tracked and every story is scheduled, Chloe Vance went offline on purpose. Now the only way to find her is to follow the pixel trail into the machine that ate her life.

*The Influencer Who Vanished on Purpose* is a razor-sharp techno-thriller for the algorithmic age—where the aesthetic is a weapon, the detox is a trap, and the most dangerous thing you can do is log off.