The 1980s—America’s darkest decade for missing children. A time when kids vanished without a trace, and parents were left clinging to hope that often never came.When six-year-old Charlotte Mercer disappears from her front yard in Silver Spring, Maryland, FBI Agent Daisy Adams is called to the case. A rooky investigator, she’s seen the worst humanity has to offer—but nothing prepares her for the chilling void surrounding Charlotte’s disappearance.

As Daisy races against time to find Charlotte, a more personal terror takes hold—the creeping fear that every missing child could just as easily be her own daughter, Lila. Balancing life as a single mother and an FBI agent, she’s spent years pushing aside her anxieties. But this case shatters that fragile control, forcing her to confront the nightmare she dreads most:

What if one day, it’s Lila who disappears?

Based on true events, this psychological thriller plunges into the terror of the unknown, where every answer leads to more terrifying questions.

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