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, magician Natalie Webb is already a has-been. A card-trick prodigy, she started touring at seventeen, took first place at the World of Magic competition at eighteen, and never reached such heights again. Shunned by the magic world after a disastrous liaison with an older magician, she now lives alone with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment. After a moment of fury during a show ends in a potential lawsuit and financial ruin, Natalie follows up on an old job offer to write a magazine article - on the art of cheating at cards.

But when she meets the perfect subject for her article, what begins as a journalistic gamble brings into question everything Natalie thinks she knows about her talent, and herself. Natalie is dazzled by the poker cheat's sleight of hand and soon finds herself facing a proposition that could radically alter her fortune - to help pull off a $1.5 million magic trick that, if done successfully, no one will ever even suspect happened.