Swindler in the Shadows (The Swindler series)

Jamie Prescott has spent most of her life surviving alone on the streets of Washington, D.C., dodging police and stealing food to survive. Her world shifts when she is captured by a masked stranger, who reveals himself as her long-lost older brother, Ethan. Ethan’s reappearance pulls Jamie into a life she could never have imagined, with the promise of safety, family, and most importantly, food, at her fingertips. All seems well, until a dangerous figure connected to the disappearance of Jamie and Ethan’s parents resurfaces, compelling Jamie to protect the family she barely knows. Following a damaging injury, Jamie is forced to come to terms with the impending danger ahead, which comes to a peak as both Ethan and his wife Catherine are taken by a masked man, finally putting a face to the dread that has been looming. Believing Ethan and Catherine may already be lost but determined to do whatever it takes to find them, Jamie escapes from the hospital. In an alleyway nearby, she meets Anthony, a kind boy with a troubled look in his eyes she can’t quite place. This meeting begins a journey which brings the two closer than they could ever know in the search for answers. It ends when Jamie, Anthony, and his sister Grace are face to face with Ethan and Catherine’s captor. When Ethan and Catherine are finally set free, they make their escape and return to the abandoned warehouse the Prescotts have called home with Anthony in tow. There, a mysterious letter awaits, signed by none other than Jamie’s missing parents. Read more