Overture: A Novel
Overturned
β Scribed by Lamar Giles
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.;Scholastic Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 441 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0545812518
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Nikki Tate is infamous, even by Las Vegas standards. Her dad is sitting on death row, convicted of killing his best friend in a gambling dispute turned ugly. And for five years, he's maintained his innocence. But Nikki wants no part of that. She's been working on Operation Escape Vegas: playing in illegal card games so she can save up enough money to get out come graduation day. Then her dad's murder conviction is overturned. The new evidence seems to come out of nowhere and Nikki's life becomes a mess when he's released from prison. Because the dad who comes home is not the dad she remembers. And he's desperately obsessed with finding out who framed himβand why. As her dad digs into the seedy underbelly of Vegas, the past threatens everything and Nikki is drawn into his deadly hunt for the truth. But in the city of sin, some sinners will do anything to keep their secrets, and Nikki soon finds herself playing for the biggest gamble everβher life.
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