What Happened to Emily Carter?
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Kluxe Publishing
Published: Aug 16 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Twenty-two-year-old Emily Carter expects an ordinary Saturday night with her closest friends: a bonfire on the beach, drinks, music, and the kind of memories they've made together countless times before.
By the next morning, Emily is gone.
Her Jeep remains near the beach, but Emily is nowhere to be found. Her phone and keys are missing, and the people who spent the night with her can't fully account for what happened during her final hours. Even the timeline doesn't quite add up. The music stopped long before anyone claims to have last seen her, leaving investigators with a crucial gap and very few answers.
Detectives Lee Johnson and Gordon Harrison are tasked with reconstructing the night Emily disappeared. What begins as a missing-person investigation quickly becomes tangled in conflicting accounts, complicated relationships, withheld information, and secrets that Emily's friends never expected to reveal.
Jared, Emily's childhood best friend, knows more about their final conversation than he initially admits. Cali carries guilt over decisions she made that night. And Alison, one of Emily's closest friends, is hiding something that could place her directly in the path of the investigation.
Then a single shoe is discovered along the shoreline.
As the search for Emily intensifies, every new piece of evidence seems to point somewhere different. A dating app introduces a stranger into the investigation. Witness accounts reshape the timeline. Long-held feelings come to the surface. And the people closest to Emily are forced to confront just how much they didn't know about one another.
Told through multiple points of view, What Happened to Emily Carter? is a character-driven mystery about friendship, secrets, guilt, and the assumptions people make when they don't have the whole story. As Lee and Harrison work to separate evidence from suspicion, the investigation reveals how an ordinary night can look entirely different depending on who is telling the story.
Everyone remembers Saturday night differently.
Everyone has something they wish they'd done differently.
And somewhere between their stories lies the answer to one question:
What happened to Emily Carter?
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