<p><strong>“<em>Then She Vanishes</em> </strong><strong>lifts the stone on a cold case disappearance and asks chilling questions about friendship, loyalty, love, and obsession.”—</strong><em><strong>New York Times </strong></em><strong>bestselling author Gilly Macmillan</strong></p><p><strong>A twisty, compulsive thriller full of jolting shocks and startling secrets involving two sisters, a disappearance, a double murder, and a reporter determined to find the truth from the bestselling author of <em>Local Girl Missing, Last Seen Alive,</em> and <em>Do Not Disturb.</em></strong></p><p><em>Everything changed the night she disappeared . . .</em></p><p>On a summer&apos;s night in 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Their hearts shattered, Flora’s mother, her sister Heather, and Heather’s best friend Jess had to somehow carry on not knowing what happened.</p><p>Twenty-five years later, tragedy strikes again when Heather walks into a stranger&apos;s house and allegedly kills two people in cold blood.</p><p>Why would this loving wife and doting new mother commit such a heinous crime? Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left behind to cover the case and dig for answers. But this isn’t like any other story. Jess was like a sister to the Powell girls, until the summer that tore them all apart.</p><p>What happened to the girl she used to know? </p><p>The question haunts Jess and propels her to find the key that may unlock the mysteries involving both sisters. But the search may reveal more . . . a darker side to this idyllic place she thought she knew.</p><br />