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Aces Wild: A Heist

by Amanda DeWitt

A heist shaped by friendship and family ties

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A heist shaped by friendship and family ties

Set amid Las Vegas casino rivalries, the novel pairs a planned break-in at a high-stakes gambling club with Jack Shannon’s effort to uncover who betrayed his mother. His crew comes from his online asexual support group, bringing friendship and asexual identity into a crime-centered plot. Family loyalty is complicated by Jack’s sister’s hope that the Shannons can leave their criminal connections behind, while Jack also confronts questions about love and the secrets surrounding his family. The combination makes the heist inseparable from the relationships and personal uncertainties driving it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in crime and heist fiction
  • Readers seeking a story featuring an asexual friend group and questions about love while asexual
  • Those drawn to plots involving casino rivalries, family loyalty, and organized crime

Themes

Heists and crimeAsexual identity and relationshipsFriendshipFamily loyalty and secrets

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Book overview

What happens in Vegas when an all-asexual online friend group attempts to break into a high-stakes gambling club? Shenanigans ensue.

Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do?

Everything starts falling apart when Jack's mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family's chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something's not right. His mom was sold out, and he knows by who. Peter Carlevaro: rival casino owner, mobster, and jilted lover. Gross.

Jack hatches a plan to break into Carlevaro's inner sanctum and find what he's holding over his mom's head, but Jack's going to need help. He recruits his closest friends, his online asexual support group, to form his team. All he needs to do is infiltrate a secret high stakes gambling club, save his mom, and dodge any dark secrets about his family he'd rather not know, while hopelessly navigating what it means to be in love while asexual. Easy, right?
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