Vanishing Protocol

She helped build the system that makes people disappear. Now she has to stop it before it erases everything.

Mara Sterling is a behavioral analyst for the Directorate - a classified government program that specializes in digital erasure. She has spent eight years profiling targets, running threat assessments, and trusting the Ghost Protocol to do the rest. She believed in the safeguards. She trusted the precision.

Until Owen Hale's desk goes empty on a Tuesday morning. Not empty - sanitized. ...