Seventeen Altered Frames
Clara Haines is a quiet Compliance officer at the powerful Vale Corporation, surviving by following rules and keeping her head down until the night interim chairman Martin Vale is found....
Clara Haines is a quiet Compliance officer at the powerful Vale Corporation, surviving by following rules and keeping her head down until the night interim chairman Martin Vale is found dead and the internet is handed proof that she did it. A grainy security video spreads fast, showing Clara entering Martin’s office on Level 19 and leaving with unsettling calm, and the world chooses its villain before asking questions. Hashtags rise, friends fall silent, and police name her a person of interest. Cornered as sirens close in, Clara is pulled from a stairwell trap by the last person she should trust, Robbert Vale, Martin’s half-brother and the company’s shadow heir. He offers terms instead of comfort, a secrecy agreement, a safe location, a contract that could protect her or cage her. As Clara fights to clear her name, the evidence twists further. The footage is edited with seventeen altered frames, a raw file request appears under her login while she is nowhere near a keyboard, and a server session shows Level 19 access under Martin’s credentials after his recorded time of death. Someone is framing her and wearing identities like masks. Trapped between a public hungry for blame, a corporation guarding its power, a family war over control, and a hidden predator who can steal names and rewrite records, Clara must uncover why she was summoned that night and what Martin forced her to read. In Stolen ID, innocence is not enough. To survive, Clara must learn how power truly moves through surveillance, forged logs, and erased identities before the person who stole Martin Vale’s life comes to steal hers next. To know more, listen to 'Seventeen Altered Frames' only on Pocket FM!