It was just supposed to be a story line - something to please her demanding new editor.

But as Claire Barrow sat at her computer, outlining a plot about identity theft, fiction was becoming reality. She is still beset with grief over the death of her policeman husband and struggling to raise her increasingly truculent stepdaughter. Now Claire must face the frightening truth that someone is appropriating her own identity, piece by piece. And, in a hideous twist of criminal injustice, she could become the ultimate victim.