Scammer Girl by Michelle DaytonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
What can I say, well-written, cleverly plotted, engaging characters and a few twists along the way.
Jo Harper was destitute after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend and snapping her achilles heel. Homeless and broke she resorted to online romance scamming. Although she sits in a grey area because she only scams married men who are cheating. Now five years later she has a team of four women and a unique concept; her mark meets the girl, but once only in some kind of engineered meet-cute, designed to appeal specifically to the mark. Thereafter they engage via texts and emails, with maybe an occasional videochat - so the guys can't be being scammed because they met the girl right? She has some rules, no politicians or politics adjacent and no-one famous, that still leaves lots of rich cheating guys who are happy to buy a girl a diamond ring or stump up her college tuition.
Then on a makr fishing trip to California Sloan, one of Jo's team, tries to use her initiative, picks on the son-in-law of a high-profile, relentless tech billionaire and follows through rather clumsily, revealing true information about herself instead of a carefully curated persona.
Beyond peeved at Sloan's mistake Jo goes to drown her sorrows at a local dive bar where she meets a cute guy. They get to talking and are really getting along, when Jo realises from some things he said that he is the mark's older brother Jamie March and a famous campaigner for ethical internet behaviour. He saw his brother with Sloan and is mightily angry that his brother is risking his marriage. Sloan has put the entire operation in jeopardy, she's gone after a famous family of tech experts and she's been seen. Not only that, at the airport while discussing the disaster with the girls and how to rectify the issue JO realises that Jamie has been watching and listening to their conversation. Now he knows its a scam and he's seen all the girls.
But with righteous indignation warring with instant attraction can the grifter and the white knight find romance?
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
I was given a free copy of this book from the publisher Tule in return for an honest review.
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