The Scammer

New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another stunning, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller, following a freshman girl whose college life is turned upside down when her roommates ex-convict brother moves into their dorm and starts controlling their every move.

Out from under her overprotective parents, Jordyn is ready to kill it in prelaw at a prestigious, historically Black university in Washington DC. When her new roommates brother is released from prison, the last thing Jordyn expects is to come home and find the ex-convict on their dorm room sofa. But Devonte needs a place to stay while he gets back on his feetand how could she say no to one of her new best friends?

Devonte is older, as charming as he is intelligent, pushing every student he meets to make better choices about their young lives. But Jordyn senses something sinister beneath his friendly advice and growing group of followers. When one of Jordyns roommates goes missing, she must enlist the help of the universitys lone white student to uncover the mysteryor become trapped at the center of a web of lies more tangled than she can imagine.

Tiffany D. Jackson is theNew York Timesbestselling, award-winning author of YA novelsMonday’s Not Coming,Allegedly,Let Me Hear A Rhyme,Grown,White Smoke,Santa in The City,The Weight of Blood, and co-author ofBlackout. A Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Award-winner and the NAACP Image Award-nominee, she received her bachelor of arts in film from Howard University and has over a decade in TV/Film experience. The Brooklyn native is currently splitting her time between the borough she loves and the south, most likely multitasking.

• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Publish Date: October 7, 2025
• Pages: 368
• Language:English
• Type:Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9780063271272
• Alt: Tiffany Jackson
• BISAC Categories:Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories, Social Themes – Adolescence & Coming of Age, Thrillers & Suspense