Five-Star Fraud

By Corey Walker

Lena Hart has built her entire life on a five-star rating.

After a layoff nukes her graphic design career, Lena's tiny online planner shop becomes her only income and her only pride. Every review, every sale on the handmade marketplace is proof that she isn't a failure. Proof that doing everything "right" still matters.

Then the whales arrive.

Overnight, Lena's shop explodes with massive bulk orders from a buyer called Aurora Finch: hundreds of pristine planners, rush shipping, instant payments. It's the kind of life-changing business every seller dreams of. Her charismatic best friend Maya calls it fate. Her landlord calls it "suspicious." The platform calls it unusual activity.

When a wave of fraud disputes hits and Lena's account is flagged, her funds frozen, and her shop suspended, she's suddenly the prime suspect in a scam she doesn't understand. Her laptop is seized, her messages combed through, and Detective Naomi Park from Financial Crimes starts asking questions Lena can't comfortably answer-like who else has her passwords, and why someone has been logging into her account in the middle of the night.

As chargebacks mount and eviction notices stack up, Lena races to clear her name and trace the mysterious Finch orders. All the clues point back to the places she trusted most: a slick "six-figure" business coach, a web of desperate online sellers...and the one person who's been in her apartment, on her Wi-Fi, and inside her accounts from the very beginning.
Because in a world built on five-star trust, the line between helper and handler is razor-thin-and someone is using Lena's perfect reputation as the perfect cover.

Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden and Ruth Ware, Five-Star Fraud is a compulsive psychological thriller about friendship, obsession, and how far an ordinary woman will go to take back the story someone else tried to write for her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GDZWK1GF
• ISBN13: 9798242329263
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"