NEW RELEASE
Book Title: Port in a Storm
Author: Rhys
Ford
Publisher:
Dreamspinner
Cover Artist: Rhys
Ford
Release Date: January 23,
2024
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Tropes: Married M/M Couple foster / adopt child
Themes: Dealing with childhood trauma, questioning whether the past
makes a bad father, found family
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: 59 000 words/ 200
pages
It is book 8 in
the Sinner’s Gin Series and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links
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Blurb
San Francisco SWAT Lieutenant Connor Morgan and
Crossroads Gin drummer Forest Ackerman make an odd couple. Connor, an Irish-born cop
from a tight-knit family, never imagined he’d find his happily-ever-after with a raised-on-the-
streets musician, but Forest had the gentlest soul he’d ever met. After a long, hard road of
heartbreak, murder, and trouble, they fell hard in love and married.
Then Fate intervenes and throws their lives into a chaos
neither one of them is prepared for.
During a brutal SWAT raid, Connor stumbles on Tate, an
abused, vulnerable little boy caught in a shoot-out with his father’s drug-running gang. As
heavy fire riddles the walls, an injured Connor rescues Tate from the fray… only to be struck
numb when a caseworker pries a sobbing Tate from his arms.
Scarred from his own childhood experiences, Forest doubts
he can be a good enough father, but Connor assures him they can give Tate what he needs
and more. Soon they are on an insane ride where trust and affection are hard-earned,
especially when coming from a little boy raised in society’s filthiest gutters. Facing down
every challenge thrown their way, they battle to give Tate what Connor treasures and Forest
never had—a family to call his own.
Excerpt
“Got a little boy—I think—here. Anywhere clear to get him
out?” Pain flared in Connor’s shoulder when he moved. The child’s weight pulled down on
his muscles, straining the tender spots blooming on his back. He’d either landed in
something wet or the hits he’d taken were more serious than he thought.
“Negative, but I can give you cover,” Yamamoto said over
the comm. “Working back down the hall. Can you hold?”
“Holding.” Connor wrapped his arms around the boy’s
torso, trying to cover as much as possible. “Get your arms down, kiddo, and grab anything
you can on my vest.”
The child was rigid, legs stick straight and stiff. His tiny
hands were dotted with bruises and dried blood, his knuckles bleached white when his
fingers tightened around the straps on Connor’s armor. He buried his face into Connor’s
chest, breathing hard and heavy when another round of gunfire opened up in the
hall.
A pair of large dark shadows fell across the opening in the
wall, and then Yamamoto angled his back against one side of the broken drywall. He gave
Connor a hand signal, then counted down from three to a closed fist and began a heavy
barrage of sprayed shots. Gun drawn, Connor ducked out to the right, keeping the boy
against his chest. He moved quickly, pausing at openings and long stretches of the hallway,
alert to any movement.
When his boots hit the living room floor, Yamamoto gave
the all-clear to move the fight to the back of the house again, leaving Connor with an easier
egress. The young man they’d left for the other team was gone, hopefully safe and sound
away from the raid. The pain along Connor’s shoulders was turning from a dull throb to a
raging fire, and as he tried to clear the mound of debris, he stumbled and caught the tip of
his boot on something hard. The kid let out a short yelp of terror when Connor’s grasp
loosened. Then he sobbed brokenly as Connor tightened his grip.
“I’m not going to drop you,” he reassured the little boy.
“I’ve got you. You’re safe.”
About the Author
Rhys Ford is an award-
winning author with several long-running LGBT+ mystery, thriller, paranormal, and urban
fantasy series and is a two-time LAMBDA finalist with their Murder and Mayhem novels. She
is published by Dreamspinner Press and Rogue Firebird Press.
They’re also quite skeptical about bios without a dash of something personal
and really, who doesn’t mention their cats, dog and cars in a bio? They shares the house
with Harley, a grey tuxedo with a flower on her face, Badger, a disgruntled alley cat who isn’t
sure living inside is a step up the social ladder as well as Gojira who is a chaos goblin
masquerading as a tabico. Rhys is also enslaved to the upkeep of a 1979 Pontiac Firebird and
enjoys murdering make-believe people.
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