Who has not readabout—or experienced—with a sinking feeling the fear that someone elseout there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account,even stealing your identity.InI'll Walk Alone,Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on thethreshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discoverthat somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating herfinancial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but mayalso be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much morebrutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by thedisappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight twoyears ago in Central Park—a tragedy that has left her torn between hopeand despair.Now, on what would be Matthew’s fifth birthday,photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followedby a chain of events that suggests somebody—but who? Zan asks herselfdesperately, and why?—has stolen her identity.Hounded by thepress, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angryex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear andpain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, thatMatthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruelhoax. What she does not realize is that with every step she takes towardthe truth, she is putting herself— and those she loves most—in mortaldanger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction.EvenZan’s supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner andamateur detective, and Father Aiden O’Brien, who thinks that Zan mayhave confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may havekidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity,until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary HigginsClark’s trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with anunexpected and shocking revelation.