Rachel drags Sam back to Denver for the funeral of the one friend she could never quite leave behind. What should be a quick in-and-out trip turns into something far more dangerous when they stumble across a quiet land deal, a wounded ex-cop, and a ghost from Sam’s own past—the one mark he still can’t forgive himself for. As old guilt collides with new threats, Sam and Rachel have to decide whether a pair of grifters can ever truly make something right without losing their edge—or each other. Dusty and Bent by Trey R. Barker is a tense, full-circle installment of A Grifter’s Song, the crime fiction series created by Frank Zafiro.