Dead Account (Sloane Merritt Mystery Thriller Series, #1)

A staged disappearance. A real abduction. And the girl she never stopped searching for.

Private investigator Sloane Merritt has built her career on finding missing persons—a calling born from devastating failure. Twenty years ago, her childhood best friend Eden Pike vanished without a trace. Two decades later, Sloane is still searching for answers.

When 25-year-old influencer Marley Quinn goes missing after posting about a luxury brand partnership, Sloane expects another routine case. A desperate family. A digital trail. A girl who made a bad decision and needs to be found.

But Marley's disappearance was supposed to be fake—a three-day publicity stunt to boost her struggling social media career. The con becomes terrifyingly real when Marley vanishes from her safe house, leaving behind only blood and signs of forced entry.

As Sloane races to find her, the case takes a disturbing turn. The person who recruited Marley used the name EdenSeeker88—a username that can't be coincidence. Someone knows about Sloane's past. Someone is using Eden's case as a blueprint. And someone has been targeting vulnerable young women for longer than anyone realized.

Now Sloane must untangle a web of manipulation, fake identities, and buried secrets before Marley becomes another girl who never comes home. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes this case might finally answer the question that's haunted her for twenty

What really happened to Eden Pike?

The first pulse-pounding thriller in the Sloane Merritt series—follow Atlanta's most relentless PI as she tracks down the missing, uncovers deadly secrets, and races against time in cases where every second counts.