Two handcuffed hands, overlaid with the text “An Editor’s Guide to Sinners or Saints By Emily Freeborn On Submission Represented by Lauren Galit at LKG Agency”
Pitch: Isabella Sanders has had enough of her egotistical father and his games of manipulation and humiliation. After Henry proposes to his mistress with the ring his sister left Bella, she decides it’s time to prove she’s no longer under his thumb.
Bella plans to hit him where it hurts most — The Sanders hotel, glittering jewel of Los Angeles and its Vault, which holds all the glittering jewels of Hollywood. An eye for an eye, a gem for a whole safe full of gems. Seems only fair.
But even with her quick wit and sly hands, Bella can’t pull off a heist of this scale without help. Enter Alex Clyde, the charming and devilishly handsome Brit who steals Bella’s watch and is determined to steal more. He’s Bella’s perfect match, though that doesn’t mean she trusts him.
As Bella assembles her team and plans only, she dodges coins about Alex’s true motives and the surveillance Henry has put on his crafty daughter. If the Saints can pull this off, Bella will finally win. But first she must overcome her distrust of the partner who’s stolen her heart.
Cruel Intentions meets Ocean’s 8 in this sexy YA adventure about a teen thief who begins to fall for the mysterious partner she has enlisted to help pull off a glamorous and daring jewel heist.
For Fans of: Cruel Intentions poster, Ocean’s 8 poster, The Inheritance Games cover, Thieves’ Gambit cover. Tropes: Unlikeable FMC, Partners in crime to lovers, morally grey characters, a swoonworthy alibi, meeting your match. Themes: Grief, breaking the cycle for abuse, eat the rich, found family, redemption.
Chapter 1. God Bless the LAPD. The Los Angeles Police Department isn’t a terrible place to spend the afternoon. It certainly beats fifth period religion with Mr. Casablanca. I’m in a small, brightly little interrogation room that lacks the stereotypically two-way mirror depicted in movies and is only furnished with the small white table and chair where I’m sitting. I tilt my head back and stare at the ceiling for what feels like a few minutes, but ends up being probably no more than two, before the door finally opens. In walks a man in a disgusting brown suit, and when I say disgusting, I mean truly awful. It’s got the color and quality of a paper ack, and the cuffs are stained with blue ink. He carries a tattered cardboard box with wires sticking out of it, which he sets down on the table with a grunt before removing a machine that resembles a medieval torture device. I have to stifle a laugh as I watch him spend a few minutes of furtive effort leaning over the back of his chair, struggling to fit the plug in the outlet. I allow myself a brief sigh of relief because if this is the Sherlock Holmes of the department, I truly have nothing to worry about. There’s a hole in his collar that I doubt he noticed when he got dressed this morning, and a few crumbs tumble off his jacket as he moves. Judging by how long it takes him to fit the plug in the outlet, I get the sense that he isn’t too bright either. But it doesn’t matter to my father if he has the brightest detective in the world on the case. I know he donates to the department and has connections to the force. Henry doesn’t need a detective who can put the right person in cuffs, just one who can find him someone to blame. That’s the only reason I’m here — I’m always the first stop on his witch hunts.
Hi editors, I’m pleased to introduce my YA Heist Romance Novel, SINNERS OR SAINTS
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