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Eighteen-year-old Danielle and her mother are con artists and thieves. They roll into the seaside town of Heaven where Dani, despite her best efforts, is befriended by an overly trusting rich girl and a handsome cop with a complicated past. Dani's sharp, clipped narration effectively reflects her precarious situation--both physical and emotional--in this coming-of-age story.