The book starts with three teen age friends stopping to make a bank deposit from a fundraiser they recently held - and - they get caught in the middle of a bank robbery. Unknown to the bank robbers, one of the trio has spent her life assisting her con-artist mother. She plays the role of the “canary” to her mother’s con - until her mother falls in love with one of her targets. The story is told with flashbacks of her life - and updates on the situation at the bank.