CONVINCINGLY INNOCENT reads like a psychological thriller, a spy novel, and a true-crime story in one. Bernadette thought it was just another business trip. Until the hotel door clicked shut.

He was the man who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto—the elusive inventor of Bitcoin. To the world, he was a billionaire mythmaker, the Iron Man of cryptocurrency whose conspiratorial brilliance blurred into delusion. To her, he became captor and manipulator. One thought pulsed in the silence: how does a horse-loving Catholic schoolgirl end up here?

This is the story of how a smart nonprofit director with everything to lose was drawn into his orbit. Years of abuse, loss, and betrayal eroded her until she landed in prison and was left with cracks he exploited. What looked like a lifeline—a job, a purpose, even belonging—slid into a descent of code names, surveillance, and control.

At the center stands a man who held the answers to one of the greatest mysteries of our time: who really invented Bitcoin? His genius was magnetic, his paranoia suffocating, and his obsession with control consumed anyone who strayed too close.

But this isn’t a story about naïveté. It’s about the broken systems that leave women vulnerable to predators who weaponize power. It’s about captivity and betrayal, but also survival—from prison cells to Bitcoin schemes, from violent marriages to the grip of a man obsessed with rewriting history. Along the way, Bernadette was reminded by survivors, a sabbatical sisterhood, and mentors that she was more than her worst mistakes—and that endurance can carve a way through even the darkest terrain.

Gripping and head-spinning, CONVINCINGLY INNOCENT carries the psychological pull of Unorthodox, the conspiratorial intrigue of Bad Blood, and the devastating intimacy of Wild. In the tradition of Orange Is the New Black, it exposes both personal and systemic failures while charting an unflinching path of resilience and reckoning. And the twist?

It isn’t fiction.