The Afterline Bureau: Vanishing Point
Book Five of The Afterline Bureau Series
When a child is taken for the second time, the Afterline Bureau learns the truth:
the Cartographer is done hiding-
and he's building something that spans the entire continent.
Maya Keene disappears again in the middle of the night, leaving only a chalk symbol on her bedroom window and a terrified voicemail filled with whispers that don't belong to her. Danielle Carter, co-leader of the Bureau, mobilizes the team, but the trail leads them somewhere no one expects-straight into the rising levels of the Canopy System, an elevation-based maze of chalk signals, psychological traps, collapsing platforms, and altitude-mapped corridors built to train and break children.
The Cartographer doesn't just want Maya.
He wants Carter to climb.
As Carter, Tahlia, Bria, Elijah, Liyah, Selene, and newcomer Dr. Sembene chase symbols through canyons, sky routes, suspended chambers, and engineered fear chambers, the Bureau discovers the system is bigger than any one case. The Canopy System isn't a hideout.
It's a continental glyph-a map carved across the American West.
And Maya is the only child who can read it.
When the final platform begins to collapse, Carter fights her way through a maze that was designed specifically for her. Maya leaves hidden chalk lines only Carter would notice-small lines, wrong lines, broken lines-but they lead her through the nightmare. The Cartographer reveals himself in the sky room, watching every move, every doubt, every moment she falters.
He doesn't just test the children.
He tests Carter.
And as the world collapses under her, she must choose which map to follow-his, or the one Maya left behind.
One agent will fall in this case.
Aiden Rourke survives the tower collapse... only to slip into a coma he may never wake from.
The Bureau loses ground, loses time, and nearly loses Maya.
But they survive.
And when Carter sees the satellite image of the fully-formed canopy symbol stretching across state lines, she realizes one thing:
They're not chasing him anymore.
They're climbing.
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