In THE VANISHING, an incident in the caves of Fogg Lake changed the people of that town forever. They saved themselves from being research subjects and trusted few while living with visions, voices, and auras forevermore. An adventure in those caves years later changes two young girls' lives forever. Little did Catalina Lark and her best friend Olivia LeClair know that that adventure would one day come back and send their world crashing once more. Secrets don't always stay secrets even if someone wants them to stay that way.

Slater Arganbright knows a lot about dangerous flashes of paranormal energies, having survived with his mind intact from one such incident. Now as an agent for an organization called the Foundation, headed by his uncle he is back at work looking into a couple of deaths that were declared natural but the Foundation isn't so sure. Slater finds he needs the help of Catalina.

And Catalina finds she just might need the help of the Foundation, though she has her own reasons for distrusting the agency. Her friend and investigation firm partner suddenly disappear and Catalina knows something is very wrong. Is it possible the "dream" they shared from those hours in the cave was real and now back to haunt them to death?

THE VANISHING is a book that brings out all of Jayne Ann Krentz's enthralling abilities onto the pages that will hold you captive. Romance, suspense, paranormal magic, evil, good, and drama are rolled up in this fascinating read. One thing I have always loved about JAK books is that the hero and heroine have flaws. Slater is very much an alpha male but he knows there are things in him broken and he is still learning about who is now. Catalina has taken a lot of things in life that would make the average person just want to give up, but she fights back. Even when she is marked as a fake psychic by her so-called boyfriend and ends up losing her job she just uses the incident and starts and a new one. Part of the problem she had was also brought on by the less than stellar handling by the Foundation, so poor Slater has a lot of marks against him, yet he manages to bring on the romance with Catalina.

I love the twists and turns in this book and though you might think it does stem back to the incident the girls shared 15 years ago in the caves, you will most likely not be able to guess the true culprit ahead of the reveal. The characters, main and secondary (Olivia's boyfriend, the head of the Foundation and his husband, the townsfolk and those that Cat and Olivia had worked with) all have a realistic bent to them, even though some might have paranormal abilities.

THE VANISHING is a book that will pull you in, hold you captive and when finished, leave you wanting more of this new world created by Ms. Krentz.