Knives Out and Ocean's 8 meets The Nest in this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning
author HelenKay 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 kids...and 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 she's out and she's more than a little pissed. Finally home she finds the
scheming clan in full family fleecing mode. They all claim they didn't really agree to
Jillian's 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 she's not
kidding?she 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 put her
life back together. She kicks out a few mooching relatives living under her roof sets limits
on everyone's 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 she's Jillian Moorewood
her own woman and she's ready to figure out who she is.
