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167 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 2000
Preliminary thoughts *SPOILERS*:
The Vanished is Alex Manes.
Biggest reveal of this story is that the Major, Mr. Manes (Alex's father), is part of Project Clean Slate and that he knows that his son Alex had been transported to another planet.
The group deals with the aftermath of Alex's absence.
Michael gets emancipated and inherits all of Ray's belongings.
Roswell gets a new sheriff, Kasey Dodson, after the death/disappearance of Sheriff Valenti; and she seems to know Maria's mother Mrs. DeLuca. Immediately, we wonder if history will repeat itself...will we have more of the same of Sheriff Valenti in Dodson?
Liz and Adam get closer; this is significantly illustrated when Liz has a nightmare and Adam steps into her dream to change it.
Kyle Valenti suspects that Liz and the group had something to do with the disappearance of his father the sheriff. He trails them to the caves without success because his tires get blown out before they all get to the caves.
The team discovers that Mr. Manes has a chemical weapon which can severely incapacitate and kill aliens, by files which Isabel was able to attain when she went spying in the Manes' house.
The group head to Carslbad Caverns where they face DuPris so that they can eliminate him and obtain the Stone of Midnight to bring Alex back. DuPris almost crushes them all inside the ship, but escapes when he forced out of the cavern's by Mr. Manes' chemical weapon gas. Mr. Manes shows them a copper ball/orb capable to storing and magnifying energy; with this they try to bring Alex back without success, all after they also without success attempted to get the Stone. With DuPris and the ship having disappeared, how will the group get Alex home now?
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