When young students begin disappearing from Dunford High School without a trace, private investigator Laughton Phillips is drawn into a case unlike any he's handled before. What starts as a simple inquiry soon unravels into a tangled web of family conflicts, troubled pasts, and the search for a better future. From the streets of Boston to the beaches of Provincetown, Laughton must navigate desperate parents, lost children, and unsettling truths in a race to uncover the fate of the missing. But are they truly lost—or have they simply chosen to disappear? Missing? Gone? is a gripping and thought-provoking mystery that challenges the meaning of home, belonging, and second chances.