jhguppy123
Los Angeles is a city where people disappear every day.
Most are noticed.
Some aren't.
Gilbert has learned what it means to be invisible. Homeless, exhausted, and alone, he expects nothing from the city except another cold night and another reason to keep moving. So when three young women offer him food, clean clothes, and an invitation to a beach party, their kindness feels almost impossible to refuse.
At first, the party is everything Gilbert has been missing-music, laughter, food, and people who actually seem happy to see him.
Then he notices the flower necklaces.
The dizziness.
The vans.
And the people being dragged away.
Gilbert escapes, but the nightmare doesn't end when he reaches the police. By the time officers return, the party has vanished without a trace. No witnesses. No obvious crime scene. Hardly any missing-person reports.
The deeper Gilbert digs, the more terrifying the pattern becomes.
Runaways. Foster kids. Homeless young adults. People without stable families, money, or anyone powerful enough to demand answers.
People the city has already learned not to see.
With the help of a determined police officer and a reporter who has been chasing similar disappearances for years, Gilbert begins uncovering a network built on one simple idea:
If no one is looking for someone, how long does it take before they can be erased completely?
And when the people behind the disappearances realize Gilbert survived, he may become the next person Los Angeles forgets.