NO SUCH CHILD

Every weekday at 3:15, Emily Carter picks up her son from school.

Today, the school swears he never existed.

No enrollment record. No pickup authorization. No Noah. His phone number is disconnected. Twelve years of photographs have vanished from her phone. His doctor says she has never treated him. Even Emilys best friend — the woman who was at the hospital the day Noah was born — looks her in the eye and says there was never a boy.

Everyone is very kind. Everyone is very sorry. And everyone is certain that Emily is the one coming apart.

Only one person seems genuinely concerned: her ex-husband, David. A powerful Washington insider with friends in every office that matters. The man who gently reminds her that they lost a baby years ago. The man who knows the name of their sons orthodontist — a name Emily never told him.

Then, at 2:47 a.m., her phone rings. A blocked number. A small, frightened voice:

"Mom… dont let them make you forget me."

Now a petition for an emergency psychiatric hold is sitting on a magistrates desk with her name on it. Once it goes through, nothing Emily says about her son will ever be believed again.

She has forty-eight hours to prove her son is real.

She may not have that long.

A relentless, short-chapter psychological thriller about a missing child, a mother no one believes, and how frighteningly easy it is to erase a life one quiet favor at a time. No Such Child will keep you turning pages long past midnight — and make you wonder how much of your own life exists only on someone elses paperwork.

Book 4 in the PageBurners series. Stories at breakneck speed.