At 27, magician Natalie Webb is already a has-been. Facing financial ruin, Natalie follows up on an old job offer to write a magazine article – on the art of cheating at cards. But the article leads to her being offered to help pull off a $1.5 million magic trick... At twenty-seven, Natalie Webb is already a has-been. A card-trick prodigy, she performed on the world magic circuit at eighteen but a liaison with an older performer ended disastrously after he stole her act and blackened her name. With her career over, she now lives alone with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment. To make ends meet, Natalie agrees to write a magazine article on the art of cheating at cards. While researching in Atlantic City, she meets Ellen – a beguiling card cheat with a dazzling sleight of hand. Ellen has targeted a group of gamblers called the Midnight Riders – a hedge fund manager, a car dealer mogul and a Senatorial candidate – who play an annual high-dollar poker game. Ellen proposes that they combine their skills to pull off the greatest illusion of all and walk away with $1.5 million. But the rules of the game are about to change...
