Vanishing Point

When the world stopped seeing her, she disappeared.

Vanessa Everly used to burn bright. Now she survives in the shadows - a single mom stuck in a dead-end job, passed over, talked down to, slowly unraveling under the weight of everyone else's needs. Her fiancé sees her as a burden. Her eldest son is already halfway out the door. And the silence in her head is starting to feel like home.

Then someone starts watching her.

Not in the way men leer, or neighbors judge - but really watching. Like they see something she's forgotten how to be. Like they remember who she was before she broke.

Everett Vale was sent to observe, not interfere. Vanessa has a gift - one the people he works for want to use. But the more he sees, the harder it gets to keep his distance. Because underneath her exhaustion, behind the polite smiles and panic spirals, is the same girl who once pulled a box cutter on a drug dealer and laughed while bleeding. The girl who survived everything, even herself.

Now the world wants to break her again.
But he'll burn it down first.

A dark, obsessive, slow-burn romance with sharp edges, second chances, and a woman learning to rise on her own terms - even if it means vanishing first.