The Vanishing by Karla Nikole

Acknowledgments

To the wonderful people who helped shape The Vanishing:

Madeline, thank you for being both an incredible cheerleader and my most valued critic. I couldn’t have done any of this without you.

Alex, thank you for being my very first fan.

Maia, thank you for being so invested in Cellina and Giovanni’s story.

Julianne, thank you for being fixated on “the underneath.”

Megan, thank you for our morning pandemic walks that kept me sane.

Jericho, thank you for your kind support in guiding me to develop a better story, and for taking a chance on a stranger.

Lindsay, thank you for being honest, hilarious and not shy about sex commentary.

Toby, thank you for cleaning up my stories to help make them presentable to the world.

Lorenzo, Elaine and Junko, thank you for lending your beautiful language fluency to help bring my characters to life.