HOW TO DISAPPEAR | DISAPPEAR #1

To the girl who is sure she is impossible.

Scarlet Bell doesn't sleep. Not really. Most nights, she slips out barefoot into the dark, chasing quiet that never quite settles. Her hoodie smells like smoke, her mailbox is always damp, and the letters-those goddamn letters-keep showing up with stars drawn in the margins and apologies too late to matter.

Zachary Heartly has learned to survive by vanishing. A ghost in his own home, he scribbles poems in the margins of books and speaks mostly in silence. His mother forgets he exists. The men she brings home remember him just enough to hurt.

They find each other somewhere between insomnia and invisibility two kids orbiting the edges of their own lives. But when the past refuses to stay buried, and love starts to feel like both a lifeline and a weight, they'll have to choose: disappear together... or alone.

Told in haunting dual POV and laced with grief, tenderness, and star-smeared hope, How to Disappear is a story about broken families, found ones, and what it means to be seen when you've spent your whole life hiding.