End of Part One.

Part Two

Five years after a federal jury convicted my husband of stealing my identity, a compliance analyst at a bank in Charlotte typed my name into a screening tool and my company nearly died.

Nothing in her file was wrong. Every document she found was authentic. That is the part I had never understood.

Chapter 12 — Enhanced Due Diligence

The email came in on a Thursday in March, and I read it four times before I understood what it was.

Meridian Health Partners was the largest client Reed & Miller Forensic had ever pursued — a hospital network with eleven facilities across three states, wanting a full audit of financial abuse patterns in their patient billing and long-term-care intake.

Eight months of work. A contract worth more than the previous two years combined. We had made it through three rounds. I had already, privately, in a way I was embarrassed about, started thinking about a second office.