When Van arrives in Las Vegas at the upscale Silver Saddle casino with her mother-a brilliant businesswoman with fragile mental health-she learns that her mother assigned her a college student, Alex, to "babysit" her. Van is used to having to land on her feet-her mother and surrogate grandmother move from city to city all the time like corporate nomads, but she is not thrilled to have someone watching her now. When Alex introduces Van, a talented...

Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous...