At exactly 3:07 a.m., an entire city block plunges into darkness — and someone disappears. No evidence, no bodies, no return. Detective Mara Ellison is assigned to investigate what begins as a string of vanishings in Crescent Heights. But when the blackouts spread across the city, Mara uncovers a chilling truth: the phenomenon is tied to a long-buried Cold War experiment that opened doors never meant to be touched.

Each night, the disappearances grow bolder. Each victim leaves behind fragments of a pattern pointing to something older than science, something alive in the dark. As the hours tick away, Mara must confront the impossible: the vanished are not gone… they are somewhere else. And that place is bleeding into her world.

The deeper she goes, the more she realizes she isn’t just chasing a mystery — she’s racing against time to stop the final blackout, when not just a block but the entire city may vanish forever.

THE VANISHING HOUR 


It broke the horizon like a wound.
First, just a shadow. A ripple cutting against the black water’s still surface, breaking the illusion of calm. Then it swelled—rising, unfolding—something immense dragging itself out of the endless dark.
Langley’s grip tightened around my wrist, sharp enough ...

The Vanishing

The Face in the Shadows

The Shape In The Static

The Weight of Silence

Whispers in the Dark

The Eyes That Watch

Beneath the Surface

The Name That Shouldn’t Be Spoken

The Weight Of Names

Below

The Threshold

The Drowning Line

The Line That Breaks

Through the Veil

The Echo of Silence 

The Edge of the Black

The Sound of the Approaching Dark

The Unraveling 

Fault Lines 

The Fracture 

The Abyss

The Drowning Call

The Shore of Echoes 

The Depths Calling

Into The Black

The Widening

The Breach

The Signal 