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β Marisol CrΓΊz is a woman seeking justice. Specifically, she seeks justice against Harlan Maddox, a corrupt Las Vegas casino owner who, just a little over a year ago, had been found to rig his slot machines and who had scammed his customers out of a collective ten million dollars. But Maddox, being rich enough to cheat the justice system, had not received the punishment he deserved, and so Marisol is determined to drain the bastardβs bank account and give the stolen money back to Maddoxβs victims. And as the wealthy CEO of a large tech conglomerate, inherited from her father when it was only a tiny startup, she certainly has the riches and resources to do it. But in order to pull off her plan properly, sheβs going to need a team - one consisting of highly skilled individuals who will be the best choices to help Marisol hand down her justice.
CeCe Gomez has been Marisolβs best friend since the two of them were small (and a little bit more than that in high school, but thatβs in the past). Sheβs also a certified badass, a former US Marine who was honourably discharged due to a shoulder injury and who now acts as a martial arts instructor in the heart of New York City. CeCe has always been willing to go along with Marisolβs crazy schemes, but the two of them lost contact several years ago and havenβt heard from each other since. But when her old friendβs lawyer visits her gym and asks if sheβd be willing to join a team Marisol is assembling, of course CeCeβs answer is yes. Sheβs never been good at saying no to Marisol CrΓΊz.
Zeke Rojas is a born and bred conman, but he hasnβt wanted to be for some time. Heβs been disillusioned with the life of a liar and a cheat since he was seventeen years old, which was kind of a hard thing to be when his entire family consisted of the most accomplished con artists in Chile. He finally got out of the family βbusinessβ four years ago, fleeing to the United States in the middle of the night and leaving no trace of himself behind, but it hasnβt been easy to go straight when the only skills heβs ever been taught are cheating and stealing. Heβs working the cold streets of Chicago, picking pockets and trying desperately to get a real, steady job, when heβs approached by the personal lawyer of the young CEO of CrΓΊzTech, offering him a chance to finally use his talents for good.
Charlie Kellman has had a lifelong fascination with everything that goes boom, but being an economically-challenged bundle of social anxiety and possible undiagnosed autism hasnβt exactly provided him with many opportunities to use his demolition skills in legal ways. Not that thatβs an excuse for assisting in four bank robberies, he knows itβs not, but also the robbers were all very nice and he doesnβt really have any friends, so it was nice to find some people he could hang out with while also being useful. That is, until the cops came upon the most recent robbery and the others completely ditched him, leaving Charlie to run from the law while alone once again. Heβs still running when Marisol CrΓΊzβs lawyer finds him, offering to get him an official pardon in exchange for joining some kind of Robin Hood team where heβll get to use his explosives for an actual good cause. Getting to be around a group of people, no longer worrying about getting arrested, and being allowed to blow stuff up? Itβs practically Charlieβs dream deal, how is he supposed to refuse?
Eva Carmichael knows sheβs a talented singer. Sheβs known it from a very young age, and she desperately wants other people to know it too. But without the dough to make connections and properly promote herself, itβs extremely hard to break onto the New York music scene. And apparently Marisol CrΓΊz, a badass young CEO whom Eva has always admired, knows sheβs talented as well, because she wants Eva to be her βinβ for a heist sheβs planning by getting a job as a singer in a Las Vegas casino. Itβs not exactly the big break Eva was expecting, but at this point, sheβs willing to do pretty much anything to get her talent out there. Plus, sheβs sure as hell not going to pass up a free trip to Sin City.
Logan Wilder is a self-proclaimed βhacking vigilante,β using his considerable computer skills to hack into the financial systems of corrupt businesses and give money back to their swindled customers. Heβs also a white hat hacker, doing people a favour by breaking into various security systems to pinpoint their weaknesses and informing the owners about them, but either way, heβs never been on the right side of the law. Thatβs why heβs in a cold holding cell with a rock-hard bench when some lawyer dude he did not call for comes to visit him, proclaiming that Marisol freaking CrΓΊz wants to utilize his skills to pull off a heist in Vegas in exchange for getting all the charges against him dropped. Itβs basically a chance for Logan to continue his mission on a much larger scale, plus it gets him off of this awful bench thatβs made his ass completely numb by this point, so of course he agrees.
Now assembled, Marisolβs team makes their way to Americaβs City of Lights, ready and willing to pull off their plan. In two weeks, Harlan Maddox will be hosting a gala in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of his biggest and best casino - the perfect opportunity for the team to strike. And so, putting Marisolβs scheme into action, the team slowly infiltrates Maddoxβs business, getting Eva a job performing at the gala in addition to getting CeCe hired as Maddoxβs new bodyguard and Logan as the casinoβs new IT manager.
The plan seems to be going off without a hitch, but of course it wouldnβt go exactly according to plan. As Logan spends more time around Jack, Maddoxβs sweet but overworked assistant, he begins to doubt the fairness of taking all the money away from a man who has people on his payroll. In addition, Marisol has been keeping a secret from the team about why she wants justice against Maddox in the first place - one that may destroy their trust in her if it comes to light.
As the night of the gala, and the heist, draws nearer, the team, who have all become something of a family to each other these last two weeks, begin to wonder: will they be able to pull off this plan after all, or will the heist, and their newly-found connections with it, come crashing apart?
Either way, what happens in Vegas is not going to stay in Vegas. Not this time. β
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