{"id":164,"date":"2023-10-03T13:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2026-09-19T07:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:30:23","slug":"dont-get-caught","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/dont-get-caught\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Get Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><em>Don&#8217;t Get Caught <\/em>was one of twelve longlisted titles in the 2024 Crime Writers\u2019 Association competition for unpublished titles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lovers of Ashley Elston&#8217;s cornered-by-crime books will enjoy this story, which is near completion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>They\u2019re crooks, but they\u2019re her family.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About to start her second year of law school, Paige hopes her family\u2019s two-year break from fraud holds out so the bar doesn\u2019t question whether she\u2019s 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\u2026only to get arrested.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humiliated and trying to hold onto her future as a lawyer, Paige negotiates a deal to clear her record after six months\u2019 probation. She finds a job as hostess at an exclusive restaurant servicing Hollywood\u2019s elite. At first, it\u2019s 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\u2019s an elegant front operation, she\u2019s implicated in crimes that would horrify her own family. Now the only question is how far she\u2019ll go to save herself\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Get Caught was one of twelve longlisted titles in the 2024 Crime Writers\u2019 Association competition for unpublished titles. Lovers of Ashley Elston&#8217;s cornered-by-crime books will enjoy this story, which is near completion. They\u2019re crooks, but they\u2019re her family. About to start her second year of law school, Paige hopes her family\u2019s two-year break from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}