![]() Nonetheless, they join forces to defraud a mysterious Chinatown crimelord, who, being neither trustworthy nor nice, makes their lives complicated, dangerous and increasingly intertwined. When they meet on a San Francisco-bound stagecoach-she disguised as a nun soliciting money for African orphans and he posing as a wealthy blind scholar-sparks fly but are quickly dampened as each recognizes in the other a kindred spirit perpetually on the make. But Grace Russell and Reuben Jones are a pair of very likable rogues-good-hearted and good-humored 20-somethings whose disadvantaged pasts have virtually compelled them to resort to a succession of cons to survive life on the American frontier. Both the hero and heroine of this fast-paced romp through California in the 1880s are so adept at lying and scheming that the narrative is more than half over before they-or the reader-know each other's true stories or real names. ![]()
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