Skin Game

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gabriel Karne is cautiously optimistic. Life seems to be settling down into a nice even keel.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's a new year and the former con artist has a permanent-for-now address. No more rickety sailboats and living out of go-bags for Gabriel Karne. No surprises. No dead bodies.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Romance-wise he and Ranger Man are easing into being a couple. A lifetime of habits is hard to break but they're getting there.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gabe even has a job. Will he regret agreeing to it? Probably but it's almost legal so baby steps.
</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A strange young woman claiming to be his long-lost daughter appears on his new doorstep and she has some sketchy documentation to prove it. It's not impossible but Gabe wasn't born yesterday and Heidi Karne was his mother after all.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then another damn letter-this one from a stranger-shows up. The author claims to have some of his late mother's belongings. Just great.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's pretty clear that the past isn't done with him yet.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>It will be fine. Everything will be fine.
</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Skin Game</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is book three in the Subtle Deceptions series.</span></p>