BEFORE I WAS HER

When forensic artist Marielle Whitcombe begins reconstructing the face of an unidentified woman recovered from a Seattle river, she encounters a resemblance no amount of professional caution can explain. The dead woman looks exactly like her.

Then the evidence becomes impossible to dismiss. Dental records agree. Fingerprints match. Yet Marielle is alive, with a job, a family and memories of a life she knows she lived.

As a homicide investigation exposes inconsistencies buried in her own history, Marielle discovers that someone else may have been moving through Seattle under her name. Following the evidence draws her towards a secretive research organisation and a question far more frightening than who the dead woman was: who gets to decide which life is real?

Every answer threatens the foundations of her identity. And someone has already killed to keep the truth concealed.