Frank Cook

In the third Carol Golden novel, Dangerous Wind,
Carol is abducted from Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she lives with her
grandmother and is thrown into an adventure that will take her to all seven
continents. It involves a former boyfriend she doesn’t remember (because of her
amnesia), who is trying to bring about the “downfall of the Western World”
according to people in power. While Carol is hunting for the bad guys she has
to sort out the truth and figure out who they really are. But she isn’t prepared
for the shocking answer.

Carol Golden has recovered her identity if not her memory (lost in Forget to Remember) and wants to connect with more relatives than just her grandmother (her parents and brother are dead) but when she finds cousins it appears they are being targeted for murder. In addition, her grandmother, who is developing Alzheimer's has lost money to the Grandparent Scam. Carol travels from her home in North Carolina to Los Angeles to attend the service of one cousin, apparently murdered, and to try to connect this to the person who is scamming her grandmother.
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Carol Golden isn't her real name. She doesn't remember her real name or anything that happened before she was found in a Dumpster, naked and unconscious, on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.

After helping her get some initial medical treatment, government at all levels officially declares her a non-person and doesn't want anything more to do with her. She can't work because she doesn't have a Social Security number, which she can't get because she doesn't have a birth certificate. She can't get a driver's license, and, having no I.D. she can't fly.