Nancy Raven Smith grew up in Virginia where she ran horse sport events. On her farm, she rescued horses, dogs and cats and is an advocate for animal rescue. Later in California, she traded her event experience for film work and went to UCLA for screenwriting. Her scripts won numerous major awards. Raven Smith decided to write one idea as a novel and discovered a passion for writing mysteries.

"If you think working in a bank is dull, you haven't met Lexi Winslow.

Lexi loves her job at a Beverly Hills bank as a Fraud Investigator. It lets her pursue scam artists and con men - known in the business as land sharks. Unfortunately, one crook left her with a broken heart and a destroyed reputation.

When she's hired by her bank's wealthiest client to find his missing daughter, a naive, young heiress and her latest questionable boyfriend, Lexi tracks the missing couple to a remote resort deep in the jungles of Sumatra.

And of all the places in the world, Lexi runs into the ex-lover who conned his way into her heart. Coincidence? She doesn't believe in them.

Lexi is determined to find out what is going on and to get everyone out alive.