Lance "Trip" Devereaux is an FBI agent in need of an arrest to put him in the top spot for a promotion when he's offered a plum assignment: get the goods on the wiliest conman east of the Mississippi, Landry Crawford. But instead of an arrest, things go horribly wrong and Lance discovers that not everything as it seems on this case. Can it be that Landry is the only friend he has? Or will the old conman leave Lance out in the cold this Christmas? An introductory novella to the Heirlooms of Deception series.