It's a lifestyle that attracts her, but is beyond her reach. Her relationship with long time friend Brendon took an unexpected turn into strange and unsettling after she talked him into having sex with her.On the other side of the spectrum is the rich crowd who flock to the big resort hotel where both Sadie and her mother work. Her dad is in jail for the latest of many poorly thought out cons. She's part of the hardscrabble one, living in a rundown trailer with her mom while she runs small cons to get enough money for the down payment on what she hopes is the start of a new life, her freshman year at Berkeley where she'll study architecture. While it's small, it still has two hugely different cultures. Sadie's living on an island in Washington State. With her future at stake and her heart on the line, suddenly it seems like she has a lot more than just money to lose. Sadie wanted to change her life, but she wasn't prepared to have it flipped upside down by her own deception. But the more lies Sadie spins, the more she starts falling for her own hoax…and perhaps for the wrong boy. With Brendan’s help, she devises a plan-the ultimate con-to get the money. She needs to come up with a lot of cash-and fast-or she’ll be stuck in this town forever. Sadie wants a better life, and she has been working steadily toward it, one con at a time.īut when Sadie’s mother wipes out Sadie’s savings, her escape plan is suddenly gone. Sadie can’t wait to get away from her backwards small town, her delusional mom, her jailbird dad, and the tiny trailer where she was raised…even though leaving those things behind also means leaving her best friend Brendan. From the author of Unraveling Isobel and The Education of Hailey Kendrick, a smart, romantic novel about a teenage con artist who might be in over her head.

The almost truth eileen cook