Vanish

Absolutely. For the Amazon landing page, I’d make it longer than the back-cover copy and lean harder into the mystery, Caleb’s personality, and the emotional stakes without giving away the ending.

Caleb Vance has spent nearly two years perfecting the art of disappearing.

Not literally. Caleb is just very good at keeping his head down, staying quiet, and making sure no one pays much attention to him. After his mother abandoned him and his younger brother, Lucas, Caleb learned that getting close to people only gives them a chance to leave. Living with Aunt Allison and Uncle John is supposed to be temporary anyway, so there is no reason to get too comfortable.

Then a ghost sits down beside him in math class.

Lateesha is everything Caleb is not—outgoing, stubborn, talkative, and completely impossible to ignore. She is also dead.

Even stranger, Caleb is the only person who can see or hear her.

Lateesha has unfinished business. Shortly before the accident that killed her, she had a terrible argument with her mother and said three words she desperately wishes she could take back: I hate you. Now Lateesha’s mother has disappeared, and Lateesha refuses to move on until she can find her and say what she should have said instead.

Unfortunately for Caleb, Lateesha has decided he is going to help.

What begins as an unwanted haunting quickly turns into a search filled with secret computer investigations, suspicious adults, risky bike rides, an ill-advised trip across the city, and more lies to Caleb’s aunt and uncle than he can possibly keep straight. When Lateesha’s former best friend, Amelia, discovers the truth, Caleb suddenly has something he has tried hard to avoid for a long time—a friend.

And friendship has a way of making invisibility difficult.

As the search for Lateesha’s mother becomes more complicated, Caleb is forced to face questions he would rather ignore. Why did his own mother leave? What happens if Aunt Allison and Uncle John decide that raising him and Lucas is more trouble than they expected? And if Caleb finally lets people into his life, what will happen when they disappear too?

Then there is the school talent show.

After Caleb’s first encounter with Lateesha turns him into the kid everyone whispers about, Amelia comes up with a plan to change his reputation. With a little help from an invisible ghost, Caleb might be able to convince the entire school that he possesses incredible supernatural powers.

There is only one problem.

Caleb has spent years trying not to be noticed.

Now he may have to stand beneath the lights and let everyone see him.

Funny, mysterious, and heartfelt, Vanish is a middle-grade supernatural story about an unlikely friendship between a lonely boy and a girl who refuses to let death silence her. As Caleb helps Lateesha search for the mother she lost, he begins to understand that some people disappear because they choose to leave—but others may be waiting for the chance to stay.

A story about ghosts, grief, friendship, family, forgiveness, and finding the courage to stop hiding, Vanish is for readers who enjoy supernatural mysteries with humor, heart, and characters worth rooting for.

Available in paperback and Kindle editions.