Chapter 3 — Who I Really Was

For two years, the Miller family had believed I was Charlotte Davis — an orphaned administrative assistant, renting a small apartment, living paycheck to modest paycheck.

They never suspected that Charlotte Davis was a costume.

My real name is Charlotte Vance, and I am the president and primary stakeholder of Ironwood Capital, a private equity firm that manages billions in assets across the globe.

I had built the disguise deliberately, and maintained it for two full years, at real cost to myself, because I wanted an answer to a question that money had made impossible for me to ask honestly any other way.