Knives Outand Oceans 8meets The Nestin this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning author Helen Kay Dimon, about a woman who returns home from prison to her dysfunctional con artist family and tries to get them to go legit.One day a con man met an heiress, wooed her, married her, had two kidsand kept on conning. Jillian Moorewood is the oldest child from that meet-cute-gone-wrong marriage. The stable one. The sensible and dependable one. The one who protects and fixes. The one who went to prison to save their sorry butts. Now, thirty-nine months later, shes out and shes more than a little pissed.Finally home she finds the scheming clan in full family fleecing mode. They all claim they didntreallyagree to Jillians previous go-legit-or-else ultimatum before she went away. They viewed it as a suggestion then ignored it. So, business as usual. But Jillian is done with the lies and fakery. She demands the whole messed-up crew clean up its act, and this time shes not kiddingshe has the leverage to make it happen.Problem is, her life is in shambles, but with the help of a great aunt (crooked but loveable), a bodyguard (who is a nice surprise after three years in prison), and a few allies (all working undercover), Jillian starts to putherlife back together. She kicks out a few mooching relatives living under her roof, sets limits on everyones access to the money, ducks from their various attacks, and sees if that bodyguard is maybe interested in sticking around for a while. For the first time, shes Jillian Moorewood, her own woman, and shes ready to figure out who she is.
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