On the night of his retirement, fixer Jameson Guard gets a phone call he never expected.

A woman from his past is begging for help. Her eighteen-year-old daughter has been missing for six months. The police have written her off as a runaway.

Jameson is a fixer by trade — not a detective — but when he arrives in small-town Ohio, something doesn’t sit right. The girl’s car has been wiped clean. Her phone has vanished. And the people who should be searching hardest seem determined to look the other way.

As Jameson hunts for the missing girl, a simple disappearance unravels into something far more dangerous. A town hiding uncomfortable truths. Dangerous men pulling strings from the shadows. And a trail that leads deeper than he could ever imagine.

With threats closing in on his family and the truth hidden further by the day, Jameson must decide how far he’s willing to go to bring one girl home.

Because in Ohio, people don’t just disappear.

They’re erased.

A tense thriller perfect for fans of Michael Connelly, William Kent Krueger and Dennis Lehane.

MEET JAMESON GUARD
Jameson “Jamie” Guard is a recently retired risk-management specialist who knows how things break — and who gets hurt when they do. He understands pressure points, cover-ups, and the way institutions close ranks when the truth is inconvenient. Not a cop, not a hero, Jamie follows the evidence with quiet persistence, even when it puts him in places he never planned to go. When something doesn’t add up, walking away isn’t an option.

THE SETTING
Chillicothe, Ohio, is a town worn down by its own history. Sitting on the edge of Appalachia, it’s a place where hard lives and harder choices have left their mark, and the line between right and wrong has long since blurred. Law enforcement looks the other way, people mind their own business, and trouble is treated as someone else’s problem. When people go missing here, it rarely makes headlines — and even more rarely sparks urgency.