The Missing Person

When Alex Turner, a successful businessman with powerful connections, mysteriously disappears, former police officer turned private investigator Emma Carter is hired to find him.

What begins as a seemingly straightforward missing-person case soon becomes something far more dangerous.

With the help of her sharp-witted best friend Sophie and the unexpected return of Liam Foster, a journalist with whom Emma shares a complicated past, she begins following a trail of hidden accounts, secret meetings, unexplained connections, and people who seem determined to keep Alex's disappearance buried.

But the deeper Emma investigates, the more she realizes that Alex Turner may have been hiding far more than a dangerous business deal.

Someone is watching.

Someone is lying.

And someone knows exactly what Emma is capable of.

As the investigation pulls Emma further into a conspiracy she was never meant to discover, she is forced to confront the ghosts of her own past, question the people around her, and decide how much she is willing to risk for the truth.

Between danger, betrayal, unexpected alliances, and feelings she thought she had buried long ago, Emma's search for one missing man will uncover a mystery far larger than she ever imagined.

The case has begun.

And finding Alex Turner may be only the beginning.

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