Name: Trailing Twelve
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Author: Charles Meyer

The refund requests start at 4:47 a.m. — five hundred of them, for a course Wes Corrigan never built, sold under his name, in his voice, using his face.

His payment processor account is frozen. His reputation is in free fall. And the evidence all points to him — the clean analytics, the professional funnel, the gradual thirteen-month build that looks more legitimate than most real businesses. Someone constructed this carefully. Someone who knew exactly how his systems worked, how his brand sounded, how his customers thought. Someone who had been in the room.

Trailing Twelve is a propulsive thriller set inside the world of digital marketing — where reputation is currency, credibility is infrastructure, and the most dangerous person in your industry is the one who learned everything by watching you succeed.

Wes has an alibi. He has recordings. He has a compliance investigator who believes him and a lawyer who explains, with professional precision, why none of it is enough. The man who did this knew the legal thresholds. He knew the technical architecture. He knew exactly which door Wes had left unlocked in 2019 and never checked again.

What makes Trailing Twelve impossible to put down is not the question of who did it — that answer arrives earlier than you expect. It is the question underneath: when someone uses your own credibility as the weapon, when your twenty years of doing things right becomes the exact thing that makes the fraud believable, what do you have left to fight with?

For readers who want a thriller that feels like it could happen to anyone who has ever built something worth taking — this is the book that will make you audit every connected application you've ever authorized and never looked at again.

Don't let someone else finish the story for you.

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The first notification arrived at 4:47 a.m.

Wes didn't see it until he sat down at his co-working desk six hours later, coffee going cold in a paper cup while his inbox loaded. The number climbed as he watched. Seventeen refund requests. Forty-three. One hundred and nine.

He set the cup down without drinking.

The subject lines were identical: Refund Request - Trailing Twelve Masterclass. He clicked the first one. Standard payment processor language, customer name redacted, product name in bold. The timestamp showed 4:47 a.m. Central. The second: 4:48. The third: 4:49.

His mechanical keyboard sat silent. Around him, the white noise hum of productivity continued—startup founders typing pitch decks, someone on a call about user acquisition metrics. The floor-to-ceiling windows showed South Congress in morning light, traffic already building.

He opened a new tab and logged into his payment processor dashboard.

The screen loaded red. Account frozen. Pending review. Estimated resolution: seven to ten business days.

Below that, a number: $287,340.00 in disputed transactions.

Wes pulled up his product catalog. Three courses, all at least two years old. Total revenue last month: $4,200. He scrolled through his email sent folder, searching for anything with "Trailing Twelve" in the subject line.

Nothing.

He opened an incognito browser window and searched for the phrase plus his name.

The sales page loaded immediately. His headshot—the professional one from his website, the one where he'd paid extra for the photographer to get the lighting right. His logo. His color scheme, that specific shade of blue he'd A/B tested for six weeks. The copy sounded like him. Not identical to anything he'd written, but close enough that someone skimming wouldn't question it.

Master the art of recurring revenue with Wes Corrigan's proven twelve-month framework. Limited enrollment. $997.

He scrolled. Testimonials from people he'd never spoken to. A countdown timer. A guarantee that matched his standard terms word-for-word.

Trailing Twelve

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