Vanishing Point

When Mara Kessler picks up the phone she knew was coming, the silence on the other end tells her what three years of hiding already confirmed: someone has found her. Within hours, a sniper's bullet and a coordinated manhunt verify her worst fears, Sebastian Croft, the journalist who put her into hiding, is dead, and the trail leads directly to her suburban doorstep. Mara has spent years pretending to be someone else, raising her daughter Lily under a borrowed name while buried memories of a bloody night resurface in fragments: a flash of Anton DeLuca's testimony, the muffled question she never got to ask her mentor Martin Gage, a glimpse of her ex-husband Marcus fleeing the scene. Now the FBI dispatcher who once promised her protection has turned, and Roland Marsh, the man behind the contracts, has sent his men to finish what his sniper started. Forced on the run from a Lansing hospital bed to the fluorescent corridors of O'Hare, with an ME office clerk and a bartender named Sully as the only souls willing to help, Mara must decide whether her daughter's future lies in exposing the truth or vanishing one final time. As Captain Breslin's department closes ranks and Marsh's contractors tighten the net around every witness she ever loved, the only vanishing point left is the one she chooses for herself.