Don’t Get Caught was one of twelve longlisted titles in the 2024 Crime Writers’ Association competition for unpublished titles.
Lovers of Ashley Elston’s cornered-by-crime books will enjoy this story, which is near completion.
They’re crooks, but they’re her family.
About to start her second year of law school, Paige hopes her family’s two-year break from fraud holds out so the bar doesn’t question whether she’s from a crime family. Then her uncle gets arrested. Worse, her family begs Paige to save him from a long prison sentence by destroying a piece of evidence at her law internship. At first, she says no. But Paige wants this arrest to go away as badly as they do, and when the perfect opportunity appears, she takes the risk…only to get arrested.
Humiliated and trying to hold onto her future as a lawyer, Paige negotiates a deal to clear her record after six months’ probation. She finds a job as hostess at an exclusive restaurant servicing Hollywood’s elite. At first, it’s a dream job. Then suspicions creep in about her enigmatic new boss, his unexpected ties to her family, and the lavish flow of cash throughout the place. By the time she realizes it’s an elegant front operation, she’s implicated in crimes that would horrify her own family. Now the only question is how far she’ll go to save herself…