Identical Misfortune

Separated at birth, thirty-three-year-old identical twins Ann Livingston and Veronica Westbrook couldn't be more different: Ann, a loving wife and mother battling depression over the stillborn death of a daughter and infertility from a hysterectomy; Veronica, a heartless sociopath who would commit any crime-and any sin-to make her next big score. When Veronica learns that Ann has married into a wealthy family, she hatches a plan to become Ann. Cool, calm and clever, Veronica manipulates family members and the police into believing she's Ann, and then stages Ann's suicide, making off with millions under a new identity as she prepares to realize her high-school-yearbook dream of living abroad as a wealthy socialite. Identical Misfortune chronicles the thoughts and actions of a cold-blooded killer as she schemes, lies and murders her way in and out of families on both sides of the Atlantic. The story also follows her pursuer, a New Orleans homicide detective, whose investigation uncovers one shocking revelation after another. But can she stop Veronica without turning her back on the law she's sworn to uphold?