I didnât do it.
I never betrayed my friend.
Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidateâs daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history.
I've been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesnât matter. Once youâre tried by the media, youâre guilty as sin. The truth doesnât get the publicâs attention.
But shame? Shame sells.
And everyone assumes youâre tainted.
Now I have my own personal security team, courtesy of the United States government. Not the one you learned about in civics class, though.
Iâm being tracked by the deep state. The shadow government. Theyâve assigned Silas Gentian to be with me twenty-four seven. He thinks he knows everything about me â all of it bad -- and he does.
On paper.
Like everyone else, he assumes Iâm a traitor. A backstabber. A betrayer. Someone who helped a group of violent psychopaths, puppets of powerful men in Washington who made me into a tool.
Yet I see how he looks at me. True desire canât be faked.
Or hidden.
And that goes both ways.
He assumes Iâm trying to fool him.
And he might be right.
But not for the reasons he thinks.
Listen to the whole series:
Book 1: A Shameless Little CON
Book 2: A Shameless Little LIE
Book 3: A Shameless Little BET