The Book - TheVBJ

Located where the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay meet on the Mid-Atlantic Coast,Virginia Beach became a city only in 1952. Home to just 50,000 then, the population doubled every ten years until 2000, when it began construction of a downtown to serve half a million people. The heart of this new central business district would come to be called Town Center.

TOWN CENTER

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Haunted by bad choices and hounded by loan sharks, Sela travels to the coast to share an old house with a loose-knit crew of fellow grifters and cons, most of whom she had hoped to never see again. They came to exploit a city in transition and attracting money from around the world, and they have a plan that is simple, but brilliant—at least in theory. By the end of the summer the job could potentially net them millions.

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Past tensions resurface and new suspicions arise, both about each other and about the true nature and scope of the job—and about the importance of a Pennsylvania furniture company expanding into Europe. The crew are forced to question their code and the price of secrecy, but the ultimate test appears at their doorstep as a terrified teenage girl who arrives bearing a note saying that they are to function as a safe house over the summer. It also contains their real names.

Sela knows that with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity on the line, the girl’s arrival at a house full of cons could ignite a game of competing schemes where not all factions, their intents, or even the players can be known.