Blair McLaughlin

A man disappears in plain sight. Simon Mercer once wore a uniform. Once belonged to something larger than himself. Once believed that survival meant strength. But after returning home from Kandahar, the quiet war inside him proves more relentless than the one he left behind.

On an autumn afternoon along the Niagara Escarpment, Brady Callahan brings a ring to a cliffside overlook, ready to ask the woman he loves to spend her life with him. Moments later, he is gone. The railing gives way. The valley below swallows him. And Abigail Whitmore is left standing at the edge.

When rising digital creator Sienna Hale is found dead in her luxury condo seated beneath studio lights, camera still recording; the scene feels less like a tragedy and more like a performance interrupted.

When a remote highway accident strands a small group of strangers deep within an isolated forest, survival at first seems simple: stay together, follow the road, conserve strength. Then the road begins to narrow. Invisible boundaries tighten. The air itself seems to correct their movement.

When a Toronto family escapes to a secluded cabin near Fairy Lake, they expect silence, water, and a week without distraction. Instead, two brothers uncover a secret that has waited more than twenty years to be found.

Two girls disappear in the same week. Eight-year-old Savannah is taken from a crowded train just before the doors close. Seven-year-old Avery vanishes during a school trip to a winter fair. Their lives do not intersect; until they do.

In the quiet lakeside village of Greyhaven, the past has a way of rising to the surface. When Naomi Calder inherits a remote cottage from a distant relative she barely knew, she expects little more than solitude and a chance to escape the noise of the city.