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The Afterline Bureau: Vanished Son
Paperback
Series: The Afterline Bureau, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 19 2025
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Dark Detective Thriller by Tobey Alvarez
When the police dismiss the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Andre Lattimore, two former covert operatives - Danielle DC Carter and Tahlia Green - open their first case as the Afterline Bureau. What starts as a simple missing-person investigation drags them beneath Philadelphia's decaying waterfront and into a nightmare built for children.
At Pier 9, they find blood.
In the freight tunnels, they find bodies.
At the Horizon Site, they find hell.
DC and Tahlia uncover a hidden facility where abducted kids are sorted, tested, and broken in the name of a project run by a brilliant ghost known only as Vale. Five traumatized children claw their way back to the surface with the Bureau's help - Isa, Jay, Mina, Myles, and tiny Lani - but the escape costs them dearly.
Walt, Isa's protector, doesn't make it out.
And deep in the ruins, one child doesn't make it out at all.
Laven Rios. Eight years old. Code name: Subject 17.
The vanished son.
Now Vale is in the wind with an army of silent men and a boy he calls his Phase Two.
DC is wounded.
Niko is barely alive.
Naomi is bleeding internally.
The children are terrified.
And Tahlia Green - bruised, exhausted, and burning with grief - makes a vow:
She will hunt Vale.
Across states. Across borders. Across every shadow he hides in.
She is coming.
The Afterline Bureau didn't ask for war.
But war found them.
And Case Two begins with a single question:
How do you save a child who isn't supposed to exist?
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