Degrees of Deception is a novel written by Kimberly Thacker Webb. By day, Jacqueline (Jackie) Jones is a struggling college student, but by night, she's a cocaine party hostess trapped in an underground world of crime servicing Washington D.C.'s most influential social elite. In an effort to recoup money spent on a frivolous shopping spree, naive 19-year old Jackie falls prey to hosting secret cocaine parties for Nita Lockheart, the ruthless and sinister head of the coke party empire.