DEAD ON PAPER

Fifteen years after a child's mysterious disappearance shook an entire town, two rival criminology students are assigned separate cold cases for a university competition. Adrian Carter chooses the famous disappearance of a child named Alex, while Eva Blake picks an unsolved murder that has haunted investigators for years.

Determined to solve their cases before each other, they race through old case files, interview forgotten witnesses, and uncover evidence everyone else overlooked. But the deeper they dig, the stranger things become. Clues from two completely different investigations begin pointing toward the same shadowy criminal organization, forcing them to question everything they thought they knew.

As buried secrets slowly surface, the line between investigator and victim begins to blur. With every clue they uncover, the danger grows, and they soon realize that some cases were never truly closed they were only dead on paper.

A psychological crime thriller filled with mystery, rivalry, hidden identities, unexpected twists, and a slow burn romance where the past refuses to stay buried.