J. K. Maddox

Lira Vey became the youngest gold medalist in figure skating history—and then she vanished. No injury, no scandal, no trace. Five years later, her former coach Bram Calder, disgraced and buried by whispers, receives a tape that shouldn’t exist: footage of Lira performing a routine no one ever taught her.

As Bram reopens the cold corridors of memory, he finds himself haunted by more than guilt. Training journals reappear with unfamiliar handwriting. A warped medal resurfaces with a name etched into its back—one he doesn’t recognize. And a masked skater begins performing routines that were never meant to be seen.

The deeper Bram digs, the more the past rewrites itself. Were the routines ever his? Was the girl he coached really who he believed she was? Or was someone else skating just behind the curtain all along?

As the truth spirals through lost performances and mirrored lives, one question sharpens:

Who disappeared—Lira, or the story he told the world about her?

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