The Vanishing

Maya Chen hasn't been back to Hollow Creek in fifteen years—not since her father's death and her mother's subsequent breakdown. But when her elderly aunt calls, terrified and confused, Maya returns to the small Oregon town she barely remembers. What she finds is worse than she imagined: her aunt insists that people are disappearing. Not just going missing—being erased. Their photos fade from albums, their names vanish from records, and eventually, no one in town remembers they existed at all. Th