You Can Trust Me

By Wendy Heard,

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In a “thriller with a sharp take on wealth and privilege” (People, Book of the Week), two best friends grift their way through the California elite—until a scam goes awry.

“A blazingly sharp, sexy, feminist thriller for those who wished The White Lotus season two was told from the POV…

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Heard’s thriller introduces readers to Summer and Leo, two close friends who travel around California in Summer’s Land Cruiser. Both young women are escaping their pasts and lost connections to their mothers. They have become con artists to survive.

Everything changes when Leo sets her sights on self-made billionaire Michael Forrester as her next scheme for the ‘con.’ Once she is invited to his private island off the California coastline, it seems like a smooth plan… yet she is in over her head and disappears soon after.

Summer determines to find out what really happened and travels to Michael’s Island.…

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