Framed by my Digital Doppelganger

When Hathaway Greystone is hauled off to Franklin County for a high-stakes cyber-heist, the evidence is a digital masterpiece. A pixel-perfect clone didn’t just steal her face—it mirrored her habits, mimicked her voice, and signed her name to a crime that carries a twenty-year sentence. The algorithm doesn’t make mistakes, and the system doesn’t take excuses.

But the system didn’t count on Jessica, Chloe, and Alek.

They have never met in person, but Hattie’s three best friends are forced into a high-voltage race across the country to find the source of the ghost in the machine. Jessica, a high-powered LA lawyer, is on the verge of tanking her career to save the only person who truly knows her. But to do it, she has to survive a 2,300-mile road trip with Chloe—an elementary school teacher who has packed her six-month-old son, her cello, and a deep-seated distrust of Jessica into one very crowded car.

The destination is Ohio, the home of Alek, a DIY woodworker and YouTube personality who’s more comfortable with a power saw than a legal brief. As the trio collides in the shadow of a Federal prison, the bickering is constant and the tension is electric. Jessica finds herself “short-circuiting” over Hattie’s defense attorney—a man who favors Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops over courtroom decorum—while struggling to prove she’s more than just the cold lawyer Chloe and Alek see on social media.

From the busy streets of LA to the clinical shadows of an Ohio jail cell, they must navigate a landscape where identity is a commodity and the truth is buried under layers of encrypted code. When a digital forensics expert enters the fray, the race becomes a hunt for the one glitch the doppelganger left behind.

Three friends. One crime. Zero paper trail.