In this prequel novella to New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's psychological suspense novel THE PERFECT STRANGER, readers are introduced to the enigmatic Johanna Hart. Abandoned by her teenaged birth mother and raised by callous grandparents, Johanna is determined to escape her bleak Midwest existence at any cost. But that blind ambition comes back to haunt her years later, after she's reinvented herself as glamorous golden girl Jenna Coeur. Now her secret past has caught up with her, embodied in a calculating young woman who will stop at nothing to destroy her - a woman with a strangely familiar face...