The Vanished Man

She gives a voice to the missing. Now the hunters are coming for her.

Piper Shaw is a ghost. Four years ago, she was a rising star, an investigative journalist on the verge of exposing a corrupt billionaire. Then, her source was murdered, her career was destroyed, and she disappeared into a life of self-imposed exile. Now, she hosts "The Vanished," a low-profile podcast dedicated to telling the stories of the lost—a quiet act of penance for the life she couldn't save.

Her carefully constructed peace is shattered by a desperate, untraceable call. A frantic man whispers of a dark web legend: the Ghost Network, a service that gives the desperate a new life. But the sanctuary is a slaughterhouse. The Network’s clients are being sold as prey in a depraved hunting game for the ultra-wealthy. His call ends in a scream, and his murder becomes a personal invitation. The killers send the video directly to Piper, making it clear they’re not just hunting ghosts anymore. They're hunting her.

Dragged back into the world of lies and violence she tried to escape, Piper is the only one who sees the truth. The police see a cold case. The world sees a philanthropist. Only Piper sees the monster hiding in plain sight. With a fragile alliance of a paranoid hacker and a world-weary detective, she must turn the tables on a conspiracy that reaches the highest echelons of power. But as she gets closer to the truth, she discovers this is no random attack. It is the bloody, final chapter of a story that began four years ago, a meticulously crafted trap designed by the one man she has never been able to forget: the man responsible for the original vanished man.

Some secrets are worth killing for. His is a business model.