This story is about a con artist, Meg Williams, but she is more of a "Robinhood" con artist. Meaning, her marks are not innocent, vulnerable people, but rather unscrupulous characters who have harmed others. Meg returns to her home town after 10 years and her mark is the man who stole her and her mother's inherited home out from underneath them - and then gloated about it. This man, Ron Ashton, is now a candidate for state senator. Meg returns to make him pay for what he did to her mother.
Meanwhile, Kat Roberts, a reporter, has been waiting for Meg to return so that she can expose her for the con artist that she is. Ten years previously, Meg had anonymously given Kat a "tip" regarding a source on a story involving a principal preying on his students. Kat met the source, but the source raped her. So Kat blamed Meg for this traumatic event. Another element in Kat's life is that her boyfriend, Scott, plunged them into debt because of a gambling addiction, but which he is undergoing treatment for. So you could say that Kat & Meg both have trust issues, for good reason.
What's great about this story is the relationship that builds between these two women. They hold each other "close" so they can keep an eye on each other. Kat uses a fake name and background when she introduces herself to Meg so that Meg doesn't know that she is researching her for the "big story" she is writing. Meg is too smart for that though. She figures out quickly enough who Kat really is, so then gives her a part-time job to keep her close. Scott does not trust Meg at all and he keeps warning Kat how seductive con artists are and how good they are at lying. Meg doesn't actually trust Scott and keeps voicing sympathy to Kat about her gambling-addicted boyfriend when someone starts messing with her bank account and opening up a credit card in Kat's name. Kat really doesn't know who to trust.
This is an engaging story and I very much enjoyed it!
Wendy's Rating: ****
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