She Was Never Missing
She vanished without a trace. But he never stopped looking.
By Prasanth N.M.
Ten years ago, Lily Morrow walked out of a school play rehearsal and disappeared into the night, without a note, a clue, or a goodbye. Her boyfriend Jacob Hale, a promising young cop at the time, was left behind with nothing but questions, suspicions, and a heart that refused to heal.
Now, burned out and no longer with the force, Jacob follows a cryptic lead to a sleepy coastal town, where a woman with Lily's eyes and a different name lives in quiet fear. She has a daughter. She wears a mask of normalcy. And she insists she's never met him before.
But Jacob knows better. And when the truth begins to unravel, so do the decades-old secrets buried beneath Alder's Cove, secrets involving a dangerous cult, a missing child, and a darkness that never let Lily go.
As obsession battles redemption, Jacob must decide how far he's willing to go to bring her back. Because Lily wasn't taken. She chose to vanish.
And some choices don't stay buried.
A haunting psychological thriller about memory, identity, and the price of love in the face of unthinkable secrets.
