He was taken. But the truth wasn't buried.

Seventeen-year-old Jamie Cross remembers leaving a party with his best friend, Emily Turner.

By morning, Emily is dead.

And Jamie is hiding the memory card she begged him to protect.

As Detective Inspector Evelyn Carter begins investigating Emily's death, the evidence leads somewhere no one expected — towards a forgotten place from Jamie's childhood, a secret programme known as Project Starling, and memories Jamie can no longer trust.

Then Jamie vanishes.

Now Carter and Jamie's mother, Sarah, must uncover what happened inside Charlton House before whoever took Jamie makes sure he never comes home.

But the deeper they dig, the more disturbing the truth becomes.

Someone has been watching.

Someone has been waiting.

And Jamie isn't simply connected to the mystery.

He may be the reason it began.

The Boy Who Vanished is a dark, fast-paced psychological conspiracy thriller about buried memories, missing children, family, identity and a secret that was never meant to survive.