Five women disappeared.

One small town looked the other way.

Now the truth is crawling out from the shadows.

Stillwater was the kind of place where nothing bad ever happened until Rachel Keene vanished without a trace. Then Samantha. Then Lily. Then Hannah. Four women gone, and no answers. Rumors spread, suspicions flickered, but fear smothered them all.

When Ivy Monroe became the fifth to disappear, rookie profiler Elise Graves was the only one who saw the chilling pattern. Each woman trusted someone they never should have.

Someone hiding in plain sight. Someone Stillwater had welcomed into their homes, their churches, their lives.

What Elise uncovers will tear the town apart. A respected face masking a monstrous mind. A web of control, obsession, and betrayal woven so tightly that even the victims never saw it coming.

The Fifth Vanishing is a heart-pounding true crime novel about how evil hides behind smiles, how trust can be the deadliest weapon, and how darkness thrives when good people refuse to see it.

No one is ever just missing.

Somebody always knows.

And sometimes, the real horror is who you never suspected.