Characters
Answer: She is a grifter who targets wealthy individuals alongside her partner Lachlan.
→ Who is Nina
Answer: The story primarily takes place in this exclusive Lake Tahoe community.
→ What is Stonehaven?
Answer: Nina’s main “job” involves doing this to wealthy people.
→ What is scamming / conning them?
Answer: Nina initially plans to do this to Vanessa.
→ What is con her / steal from her?
Answer: Nina lies about this basic detail when she meets Vanessa.
→ What is her identity?
Answer: This wealthy heiress is grieving her mother and becomes a target of Nina’s scheme.
→ Who is Vanessa
Answer: Vanessa’s wealth comes largely from this booming industry.
→ What is tech / social media?
Answer: Nina uses this fake identity to get close to Vanessa.
→ Who is Ashley?
Answer: Vanessa begins to suspect Nina after noticing this.
→ What are inconsistencies / lies in her story?
Answer: Vanessa hides the truth about her finances and this major problem.
→ What is losing money / financial instability?
Answer: He is Nina’s charming and manipulative partner in crime.
→ Who is Lachlan
Answer: Nina and Lachlan often pose as this type of affluent traveler to gain trust.
→ What are wealthy socialites / jet-setters?
Answer: Lachlan and Nina specialize in stealing this from their targets.
→ What is money / valuables / identities?
Answer: This relationship becomes more complicated as truths unfold.
→ What is Nina and Vanessa’s relationship?
Answer: Lachlan is not honest about this in his relationship with Nina
→ What is his loyalty / intentions?
Answer: This character pretends to be someone else in order to infiltrate Vanessa’s life.
→ Who is Nina (posing as Ashley)?
Answer: Vanessa retreats to this location to escape her life and process grief.
→ What is her family estate / Lake Tahoe home?
Answer: This is the key tactic Nina uses to gain Vanessa’s trust.
→ What is emotional manipulation / friendship?
Answer: Vanessa ultimately turns the tables by doing this.
→ What is manipulating / outsmarting Nina?
Answer: Nina keeps this hidden from Vanessa while living in her home.
→ What is her plan to con her?
Answer: She is Nina’s mother, whose illness motivates Nina’s actions.
→ Who is Nina’s mother? (accept: Who is Nina’s dying mother?)
Answer: This contrast highlights the difference between Nina and Vanessa’s worlds.
→ What is wealth vs. survival / privilege vs. struggle?
Answer: The biggest twist reveals that this character is not as naïve as she appears.
→ Who is Vanessa?
Answer: The story alternates perspectives between these two women.
→ Who are Nina and Vanessa?
Answer: Vanessa secretly knows more about Nina than she initially lets on—this is revealed as what?
→ What is she was playing along / setting her up?