The Last Grift

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jaded confidence man Gabriel Karne is on the run. A literal snarling slobbering guard dog nips at his heels.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If he makes it over the chain-link fence he vows to skip town for friendlier climes. Somewhere no one knows his name.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It will be fine. Everything will be fine.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Less than twenty-four hours on the island and Gabriel's had a nasty confrontation with two local good ol' boys earned a trespassing citation from an infuriating but compelling forest ranger and offered to search for a missing person. So much for lying low.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Being off his game only partially explains why Gabe would rather focus on a stranger's bad luck than his own. Fact is he's always had a soft spot for losers and maybe just maybe he's tired of the game.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Last Grift</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is the first installment in </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the Subtle Deceptions series</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a small town mystery with romantic elements. The series part of the Piedras Island and Veiled Intentions universe is written in the third person and follows the unplanned adventures in the life and love of the disreputable Gabriel Karne. This series has connections to the Veiled Intentions series but can be read independently.</span></p>