At 11:47 p.m., Clara Mercer opens an email that is about to destroy the life she thought she knew.
A stranger claims he has spent six months falling in love with her. He has her messages. Her voice. Her memories. Even photographs taken inside her flat.
There is only one problem.
Clara has never met him.
As Head of Member Integrity at Vela, a global dating app, Clara has spent years hunting fake profiles, stolen identities, and digital impostors. Now the case file has her name on it.
And it isn't the first.
Buried in Vela's records are complaints closed years ago, each one signed off by a version of Clara she doesn't remember being.
Someone has built another woman out of her life. Her history. Her habits. Secrets she has shared with almost no one.
And whoever created her knows Clara well enough to become her.
As the boundary between stolen identity and something far more dangerous begins to disappear, Clara must uncover who is behind the woman using her name before she loses control of more than her reputation.
Because the closer Clara gets to the truth, the harder one question becomes to answer:
Which version of her is the real one?
A psychological techno-thriller about identity, artificial intelligence, obsession, and the terrifying intimacy of being known too well.