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Thank you so much for reading Con With Me! This has been a book I've been planning since 2017, and I actually wrote most of it in 2018, but didn't have a chance to finish it until now. It was inspired by my love of the British TV show, Hustle, which featured a group of con-men who would only cheat a dishonest man. You can see that philosophy adopted into Con With Me as I didn't want to make the characters unlikeable.
You may have noticed some minor cross-overs to the other ME books in this one too! Earl Andrew Wellesley was one of the antagonists in Kneel For Me (though he doesn't appear on page in this one!) and Gans, the company Katie worked for at the beginning of the book, is owned by Sophie, the main character in Laid By Me. Despite this, all of the books can still be read as standalones.
This is the last book of the ME series that will be reverse harem. Both Race Against Me (book 7) and the unnamed book 8 will be m/f contemporary romance.
Finally, I must mention Claude Monet. In hindsight (as in, when I picked the book back up to write it!) that seems like a very out-there choice, especially as the most expensive Monet painting was sold for $110 million (a tad more than the $500 thousand Hubert paid), but I didn't change it because it was a chance to make a small homage to my favourite painter. I love Monet's paintings and have been to his gardens multiple times (they're beautiful, I highly recommend it!) and when I lived in Paris, I'd always choose to go to the Orangerie instead of the Louvre so I could see the famous Water Lilies. I hope you were able to suspend disbelief on that one! It was too fun an opportunity to pass up!
Thank you so much for reading!
- Laura