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Tracy flees to the airport, leaving Romano gasping in a pool of blood on the floor. In the scuffle, the gun discharges and puts a bullet into Romano. Romano pushes her down on the floor and tries to rape her. She then pulls a pistol and demands that he write a letter confessing his crimes. She goes to his house during Mardi Gras and charms her way inside. She goes to the Big Easy to find Joseph Romano, a known underworld mobster who bought her mother's company for a pittance, stole all its resources and drove her into bankruptcy.

Her first blunder, committed in exacting revenge on the crooks in New Orleans who drove her mother to suicide, lands her in a Louisiana prison. Her relationships with men are largely superficial one-nighters it seems she is incapable of truly loving anyone but herself. Tracy's satisfaction in executing high-risk, high-reward schemes grows exponentially until it is the central driving force, or addiction, of her life. She finds that she has a real gift for this line of work, and soon becomes one of the most wanted female criminals in the world-a one-woman crime wave who never does physical violence to anyone but who lives by outsmarting those who would capture or co-opt her. Her anger sated by these acts of revenge, Tracy is drawn subtly into another world of criminality peopled by hustlers, flim-flam artists, burglars and assorted other human parasites.

Against seemingly impossible odds, Tracy outwits these career criminals and one by one leads them to their own destruction through clever con games of her own. It is the story of an average American woman, Tracy Whitney, who sets out to avenge her mother's suicide resulting from the loss of her business to con men and criminals in New Orleans. This is a high-octane, sexy thriller that keeps the reader on tip-toe throughout, trying to guess what the next plot twist will be.

If tomorrow comes sands of time sidney sheldon