Title from container. "HD." "Light." "Blackstone Publishing." Read by Laurie Catherine Winkel. Previously released by Hachette Audio, ℗2019. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Summary:
"Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in a small, quiet town in Indiana in the early nineties. When she was eleven, her parents' identities were stolen. Over the next twenty years their credit was ruined, money went missing from their bank accounts, and they fought constantly over finances. They changed their personal information and redirected their mail to post office boxes in multiple nearby towns. This was before the age of the internet, before today's commonplace measures of identity-theft prevention: authorities and banks were without answers. The identity thief followed them wherever they went. Convinced the thief was someone they knew, Axton and her parents isolated themselves from friends and family. Axton learned not to trust anyone and lived in fear of the power of the unknown thief. She struggled to connect with her peers and her own parents, who were so consumed with paranoia they could barely trust one another. She watched as her parents' marriage suffered. In college, after a utility company flagged her new account, Axton discovered that she, too, had fallen prey to the identity thief. By then thousands of dollars of debt was in her name and her credit was decimated. Axton vowed to find out who was responsible for the years of financial, psychological, and emotional damage. At last, the thief was found out -- but by then Axton and her family would never be the same."-- Provided by publisher.
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