Evie Porter is a con artist, and Evie Porter isn’t her name. She works for a man she’s never met who calls himself Mr. Smith. He hands her a town, an identity with a manufactured past that holds up to a search, and a mark, and she goes and does the job. This one is Lake Forbing, Louisiana, and the mark is Ryan Sumner, who runs a trucking company hauling more than the invoices say. She moves in with him. She also starts liking him, which was not the assignment. Then a woman turns up at a dinner party and introduces herself with Evie’s real name — the one thing she’s never let anybody touch. Elston cuts between this job and every job that got her here, and the fun is watching a professional liar get lied to.
First Lie Wins