To Have and to Heist
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3.9 • 8 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper from the author of The Dating Plan.
Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She’s lost yet another job, her student loan debt won’t stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she’s desperate for a break—that’s right when Jack waltzes out of the bushes and into her life.
Jack is just as charming as he is mysterious. When he offers to help her find the missing necklace and steal it back, Simi jumps at the chance to clear her friend’s name and collect the substantial reward. But every good heist needs a crew. All she needs to do is transform a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew, infiltrate a high-society wedding and steal the necklace from a dangerous criminal before the happy couple say "I do." Meanwhile the bride is keeping secrets, a detective with a slow-burn smile keeps showing up at her door, and the ultimate robbery might not be the wedding con, but the way Jack is stealing her heart.
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Oceans 8 meets The Wedding Planner in this dazzling rom-com caper from Desai (The Singles Table). Simi Chopra spends her life rushing from a series of "soul-sucking, mind-numbing entry-level office jobs" to retail side gigs because she has "too much debt to pursue anything interesting, much less find passion." When her ride-or-die bestie, Chloe, a freelance white hat hacker, gets set up to take the fall for the theft of a $25 million diamond necklace, Simi mounts a rescue that proves both hilarious and thoroughly ineffective, stymied by the presence of another criminal, Jack. Jack, a thief, doesn't have a last name he's willing to share with Simi, but he does have a plan. If Simi and her gig worker friends (each of whom has a relevant talent) can get him into the house of Chicago's best fence, Joseph Angelini, Jack will steal the necklace, clear Chloe's name, and give each member of the crew enough reward money that they'll be able to finally focus on their passions. As the danger increases, so does the sizzling attraction between Simi and Jack—but Simi can't tell if she can trust Jack's motives in the caper, let alone with her heart. Desai perfectly balances the lighthearted romance with a fun and twisty heist plot enacted by a kooky cast of indebted millennials. Romance lovers will devour this un-put-downable treat, and even readers generally wary of the genre will be swept away.
Customer Reviews
A fun mash up of rom-com meets cozy mystery
This was a fun and action packed tale. Simi is a character readers will root for! This story had some Stephanie Plum vibes for me. The romance wasn’t really the prominent story and at times I wondered which man would end up as Simi’s true romantic partner. I love books with good friendships and my favorite part of this story was the crew turned found family Simi assembled while trying to rescue her best friend. This story has lots of twists and a satisfying conclusion.