When 18-year-old Journee Howard wakes up to find her entire town has vanished, she grapples with the feeling of being left behind.

Her once bustling suburb has been reduced to total silence, save for the strange static coming from the DREXA devices. The world has vanished, leaving Journee alone in a ghost town—until Zack King, her best friend’s older brother, returns from a hunting trip. The reclusive soldier, and the man Journee has loved for years, comes home to find nothing but empty houses and a terrified Journee.

Together, Journee and Zack struggle to survive and uncover the truth of the disappearance, clinging to each other in the deafening silence. And soon, what begins as a fragile companionship, blossoms into something deeper—a forbidden love that grows in the shadow of a vanished world.

They discover that survival isn't their biggest challenge. It's the guilt of being left behind and the weight of not knowing what's happened to their loved ones.

But the disappearance was no accident. The truth is hidden in the stars...

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