The Ghats of Deception: A Novel Stolen Identity, Anxiety and Rebirth

When anxiety sufferer Olivia Reed flees to India to fulfil a promise to her dying mother, she never expects to lose everything that proves who she is.Olivia's carefully controlled life in Bath-her bookshop, her routines, her safety-crumbles after a public panic attack forces her to escape. In Varanasi, while scattering her mother's ashes on the sacred Ganges, someone back home is systematically stealing her identity.By the time Olivia discovers the theft, her passport is flagged as stolen, her flat is occupied, and she's trapped 4,000 miles from home.What begins as a bureaucratic nightmare becomes something far more sinister-a criminal network that doesn't just steal identities, it erases them completely.Fighting through international red tape and her own unravelling sense of self, Olivia realizes the greatest theft wasn't her documentation-it was her belief in herself.Perfect for readers who enjoy Kate Atkinson and Tana French-a literary psychological suspense that explores what remains when everything is stripped away.

Pagina's: 392, Paperback, Lynsey Doel