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The Vanishing Series 📚
Vanishing Mia — Book 1 in the Series
When Mia Evanescence discovers her new husband isn’t just controlling—he’s lethal—she tries running. One failed attempt convinces her: escaping a man with diplomatic immunity and Greek Mafia ties demands shedding her old self like a skin. She. Will. Vanish.
A desperate rappel from her third-floor home-office window plunges Mia into Delareau, Louisiana, where bayou heat clings thick as secrets. Cut off from her adoptive family and all of her resources, she navigates a world of old-money dynasties and older sins, leveraging her film and video production savvy for survival instincts. Enter Jake Brusey: a bar owner with a criminal family, a guarded past, and a reckless urge to help her. Their fragile alliance forms when pregnant socialite Leanne Broussard Fortier appears, fleeing her own gilded cage. Leanne has money but no grit; Mia has grit but no money. Together, and with Jake’s betraying his lifelong commitment to stay out of the dark side of his extended family’s activities, they forge a pact steeped in desperation: disappear Leanne and her unborn child, fund Mia’s rebirth. But every step deeper into the art of disappearing cracks Mia’s hardest-learned skill—the art of forgetting—and forces her to confront the childhood ghosts she buried decades ago.
Vanishing Mia, the first book in The Vanishing Series, charts Mia’s metamorphosis from a woman shaped by trauma to a strategist reshaping her scars as weapons. Over five novels, her journey sprawls from Louisiana’s moss-draped shadows to Michigan’s frozen grit, each setting a character as alive as the syndicates, traffickers, and abusers she dismantles. With prose as taut as a tripwire and sensory detail that immerses readers in the sweat-soaked dread of pursuit, the series blends the atmospheric tension of James Lee Burke with the psychological precision of Gillian Flynn. Mia’s evolution—from defensive survival instincts to experienced strategic offense—mirrors the broader fight against systems of power, asking: who do we become when we stop fleeing and start fighting.
© 2024 Phyllis Horne All Rights Reserved.
Book descriptions & Publication Notes
The Vanishing Series
Book 1 — Vanishing Mia
Release date TBD
Book 2 — Vanishing Chiara
1st Draft: Complete
As Mia's efforts to resolve her situation are stymied by Aleks’ legal maneuvering and her resources dwindle, she encounters Chiara Blackwell, an almost-famous sculptor fleeing relentless kidnappers determined to use her as bait in her undercover FBI agent husband’s ill-fated mission. Mia's growing expertise in evasion and disappearance becomes a beacon of hope for Chiara, as Mia and her new team of trusted allies help her escape, perhaps even from the FBI itself.
Release Date — TBD
Book 3 — Vanishing Kofi
1st Draft: Complete
A chance encounter at an Indiana convenience store turns deadly when Mia discovers Kofi, a 19-year-old Nigerian man fleeing human traffickers, hidden in her SUV. As she works to help another soul escape captivity, her own pursuer gains lethal new resources. Aleks, newly crowned in his recently-deceased father's Greek crime empire, employs his organizations bleeding edge technology resources to find her. And, his obsession has evolved: better to be a respected widower than a man whose wife outsmarted him.
Beta Read Date — Ongoing
Edit Date — Ongoing
Release Date — TBD
Book 4 — Vanishing Silas
When Mia meets Silas, she recognizes their shared trauma—he's trapped by his wife, a Mississippi Senate heiress and future presidential candidate who threatens his life if he tries to leave or seek medical consultation about their three-year-old's apparent gender dysphoria. As Mia helps this desperate father and child escape, she also begins a dangerous search into her own past: what really happened to her mother, where her father disappeared to, and how to defeat Aleks in the fight that's coming.
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