The Scammer

(Hardback)

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New York Timesbestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another stunning, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller, following a freshman girl whose college life is turned upside down when her roommates ex-convict brother moves into their dorm and starts controlling their every move.

Out from under her overprotective parents, Jordyn is ready to kill it in prelaw at a prestigious, historically Black university in Washington DC. When her new roommates brother is released from prison, the last thing Jordyn expects is to come home and find the ex-convict on their dorm room sofa. But Devonte needs a place to stay while he gets back on his feetand how could she say no to one of her new best friends

Devonte is older, as charming as he is intelligent, pushing every student he meets to make better choices about their young lives. But Jordyn senses something sinister beneath his friendly advice and growing group of followers. When one of Jordyns roommates goes missing, she must enlist the help of the universitys lone white student to uncover the mysteryor become trapped at the center of a web of lies more tangled than she can imagine.

Author Bio

Tiffany D. Jacksonis theNew York Timesbestselling author ofAllegedly,Monday's Not Coming,Let Me Hear a Rhyme,Grown,White Smoke,and The Weight of Blood and coauthor ofBlackoutandWhiteout. A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book and Coretta Scott KingJohn Steptoe New Talent Award winner, she received her bachelor of arts in film from Howard University, earned her master of arts in media studies from the New School, and has over a decade of TV and film experience. The Brooklyn native is splitting her time between the South andthe borough she loves. You can visit her atwriteinbk.com.