Lucas

With no ransom demand, no witnesses, and no trace, the disappearance feels terrifyingly random.

Elise turns to a man from her past—Lucas Maxwell.

Former soldier. Security specialist. Lucas is calm under pressure, relentless in a crisis, and the one man Elise once trusted with her whole heart. Now he's the one building structure out of chaos—working angles the police can't. Seeing patterns others miss. And keeping Elise upright when grief and fury threaten to tear her apart.

As police work the case, Lucas follows instinct, digital shadows, and fragments that refuse to form a pattern. There are no obvious motives. No clear suspects. Just a child gone and time slipping away.

The closer they get to answers, the more Elise realises this isn't only a fight to bring Mia home.

It's a fight against the blame circling her, family tensions waiting to explode, and the past Elise tried to bury—because Lucas isn't just helping her search.

He's stepping back into her life.

And if Mia is going to come home, Elise will have to survive the longest days of her life…while standing face-to-face with the love she never truly let go of.

A high-stakes romantic suspense about a mother's desperation, a child's resilience, and the man who came back when it mattered most.