Who Are You?: With one click she found her perfect man. And he found his perfect victim. A true story of the ultimate deception.

Who Are You?: With one click she found her perfect man. And he found his perfect victim. A true story of the ultimate deception.
Megan Henley

Linda Watson Brown

A dramatic and terrifying memoir of a ‘catfish’ scenario - when a woman meets a man online but nothing is what it seems.25-year-old Megan Henley put her five-year-old daughter to bed one evening and switched on her laptop. A Facebook ‘friend request’ seemed to be genuine. There were a few common friends and very similar interests, so Megan accepted.With that one simple act, she changed her life forever. In her words: ‘looking back on it, it was as if I had opened my front door to a stranger, as if I had thrown away every precaution I’d ever put in place, as if I had freely given access to my whole world – all because of some naïve belief that it was ‘just’ a friend request on a social media site.’ Megan is tricked into a relationship, paranoia, and ultimately betrayal by the man she loved and trusted but nothing is as it seems.

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Dedication (#u793d4437-395c-547c-a03d-e60c1c1e5753)

For Wugsa and Weeves: you are all that matter x

Contents

Cover (#u14d9aded-f692-5ec0-a994-5b38433d6fa8)

Title page (#ulink_9af3f462-f8d1-5cb7-b0f4-ea948fbbd0c6)

Copyright (#ulink_a9b935fe-6493-5735-80ab-36f3232a20c2)

Dedication (#ulink_227b8815-a0cc-5a21-bc14-6574a41f10a8)

Prologue (#ulink_db4d2c59-0202-57ab-8320-0c6bfd98e36f)

1 Teenage kicks (#ulink_89bc6f36-73b9-54c5-9ce6-99f1784466da)

2 ‘Are you OK?’ (#ulink_a7eae4ee-53a6-5ffa-af7d-c4ea6e69c138)

3 Friends (#ulink_fe79b911-0d51-5401-96fd-cb7a33bf7c1e)

4 Mad (#ulink_1c362c47-a88c-53cd-9323-4ea45c2e2b52)

5 In too deep (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Danger (#litres_trial_promo)

7 Silence (#litres_trial_promo)

8 Happy birthday (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Living again (#litres_trial_promo)

10 ‘Do you really think you can just go?’ (#litres_trial_promo)

11 Crystal clear (#litres_trial_promo)

12 White knights and dark days (#litres_trial_promo)

13 Trust (#litres_trial_promo)

14 Better times (#litres_trial_promo)

15 Once upon a time (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)