"The most efficient way to disappear a person is not to move their body. It is to move everyone else's memory of them."
Seven years. That's how long Meredith Ellis worked as a meticulous compliance analyst for Hargrove & Stern Financial. She knew every rule, every protocol, and every coworker. But after taking a seven-week leave to care for her dying mother, Meredith returns to a living nightmare.
Her security badge is dead. Her digital footprint is gone. Her desk has been cleared, and her trusted mentor and boss, Colin Averill, calmly informs her that she resigned weeks ago.
She didn't. But someone with her name did.
As Meredith tries to untangle the web of her own erasure, she discovers a terrifying truth: someone has stolen her professional identity to authorize $12.4 million in fraudulent offshore wire transfers. And they haven't just stolen her credentials?they've built a flawless digital trail pointing directly at her. From a $15,000 deposit planted in her personal bank account to VPN logs tracing the fraud right back to her Somerville apartment, the frame job is absolute.
Isolated, grieving, and stripped of her credibility, Meredith must rely on the very skills she used to protect the firm to take it down. But proving her innocence means going up against a powerful man who knows all her secrets, and who has already convinced everyone else that she is losing her mind.
