After a romance-scam voice note uses the wrong woman's name, ER nurse Camryn Dubois hunts the network that renamed and drained its victims before her daughter becomes collateral.

SYNOPSIS:

Camryn Dubois is an ER nurse who can stop bleeding faster than she can admit she is broke. The case begins in the ambulance bay when Brisca Vellum, a previous target turned unwilling courier, brings a wrong-name voice note. The scammer called her Marielle until she started answering to it. Camryn recognizes the wound immediately: she sent money because the lie sounded like care and the care sounded overdue.

At home, Camryn's teenage daughter Zuri clocks digital fraud faster than the adults want to admit: profile shadows do not match, voice files glitch, and love starts sounding like an app that read divorce posts. Detective Phaedra Solen, Talise Varden, Shayla Quon, Orla Keene, Jett Roane, and other victims orbit a network that renames women, extracts money, and turns shame into silence. Camryn has to collect receipts, voice files, missing flyers, and survivor testimony while protecting her license, her daughter, and the part of herself that still wants to believe care can be real. HEARTLOCK is a romance-scam thriller about loneliness as infrastructure and evidence as self-respect.