The cold steel handcuffs clicked loudly as the lead police officer slapped them around Chloe’s trembling wrists.

"Get your hands off me!" Chloe shrieked, kicking her feet as the officers turned her around. "Mother! Do something! Tell them I did not do it! Tell them it was Evelyn!"

Camera flashes exploded continuously like blinding thunderbolts. Dozens of news reporters pushed their heavy camera lenses right into Chloe's pale, crying face. Every single media outlet in the city was broadcasting her total humiliation live to millions of viewers on television.

"Officer, please! There has been a terrible mistake!" Nora cried out, grabbing the lead officer's arm. "My daughter is innocent! She...