From the publisher
It was supposed to be a story line - just something to please her demanding new editor. But as Claire Barrow sits at her computer, outlining a plot about identity theft, fiction is becoming reality. Still beset with grief over the death of her policeman husband and struggling to raise her increasingly truculent stepdaughter, Claire must face the frightening truth that someone is appropriating her identity, piece by piece.

Then comes the shocking news that the courts have set free a vicious killer her husband had tried, unsuccessfully, to put away. With her world crumbling around her, nothing is as it seems to Claire, and she can rely only upon herself to keep from becoming the ultimate victim.