License to Lie Books

Never trust a soul—even your own. With Five Million Dollars and their lives on the line, can a determined criminologist and a beautiful con artist learn to trust each other—or themselves? Both are experts in the art of communications. Both are driven by their goals—but they’re on opposite sides of the law. When her father is kidnapped, they join forces—and learn that it’s hard to trust each other—or themselves.

A million-dollar con gone wrong. A failed attempt at murder. A young girl living on the streets. In this con game, only the strongest survive.Con artist Roxy Tanner just walked away with $2.6 million on her latest job, but left behind a dead body. Skip Cosgrove wants to help Roxy find out who killed her mark, but he has his own problems—a man the former criminologist once helped put behind bars is back for revenge. With the cops closing in on Roxy, a killer on the hunt for Skip, and neither sure they can trust the other, there’s only one thing to do—whatever it takes.

For 546 days, con artist Roxy Tanner has been living with guilt. After the victim of her last con died, Roxy swore she’d ‘go straight.’ She’s fought hard to change her life, and has even taken in a headstrong street kid named Lily Jamison. Despite being fired from numerous jobs in the last year, Roxy refuses to touch the $3 million dollars from her last job—until someone kidnaps Lily.The kidnappers give Roxy less than 24 hours to pay a $5 million ransom. Unable to turn to the police without risking discovery of her own past crimes, Roxy is left with only one solution—find the kidnappers and save Lily by whatever means possible. Roxy and her fiancé Skip Cosgrove begin digging into the motives behind Lily’s kidnapping. They discover a trail littered with lies, deceit, and a family vendetta. At the heart of it all is a painting known only as The Last Warhol. With the clock ticking down and her options disappearing, Roxy resorts to the only tool she has left, her past and the art of the con.