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    The Devil's Brew
    The Devil's Brew
    The Devil's Brew
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    The Devil's Brew

    By Rhys Ford

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    Sinners Series: Book 2.5

    Miki St. John’s life has been turned upside down, but it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.

    His best friend, Damien Mitchell, is back from the dead. He has a dog named Dude. And more importantly, he and his lover, SFPD Inspector Kane Morgan, now share Miki’s converted warehouse.

    For the first time ever, Miki’s living a happy and normal-ish life, but when Valentine’s Day rolls around, Miki realizes he knows next to nothing about being domestic or domesticated. Nothing about the traditional lover’s holiday makes sense to him, but Miki wants to give Kane a Valentine’s Day the man will never forget.

    Can he pull off a day of wine and roses? Or will his screwed-up childhood come back and bite Miki in the ass?

    Again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateMay 21, 2014
    ISBN9781627987684
    The Devil's Brew
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    Rhys Ford

     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 her Murder and Mayhem novels. She is also a 2017 Gold and Silver Medal winner in the Florida Authors and Publishers President’s Book Awards for her novels Ink and Shadows and Hanging the Stars. She is published by Dreamspinner Press and DSP Publications. She shares the house with Harley, a gray 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 a ginger cairn terrorist named Gus. Rhys is also enslaved to the upkeep of a 1979 Pontiac Firebird and enjoys murdering make-believe people. Rhys can be found at the following locations: Blog: www.rhysford.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/rhys.ford.author Twitter: @Rhys_Ford  

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      The Devil's Brew - Rhys Ford

      Table of Contents

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      THE DEVIL’S BREW

      By Rhys Ford

      Sinners Series: Book 2.5

      Miki St. John’s life has been turned upside down, but it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.

      His best friend, Damien Mitchell, is back from the dead. He has a dog named Dude. And more importantly, he and his lover, SFPD Inspector Kane Morgan, now share Miki’s converted warehouse.

      For the first time ever, Miki’s living a happy and normal-ish life, but when Valentine’s Day rolls around, Miki realizes he knows next to nothing about being domestic or domesticated. Nothing about the traditional lover’s holiday makes sense to him, but Miki wants to give Kane a Valentine’s Day the man will never forget.

      Can he pull off a day of wine and roses? Or will his screwed-up childhood come back and bite Miki in the ass?

      Again.

      To the San Diego Crewe: Andrea, Felix, and Steve.

      This one’s for you guys.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      BECAUSE MY life as a writer never would have started and continued without these people: Penn, Lea, Tamm, and Jenn (The Five), as well as Ree, Lisa, and Ren.

      There is a huge kiss and love to my Guinea Pigs and Beta Readers. There is so much I owe you and I can’t even begin to thank you. Love you all. And of course, the San Diego Crewe.

      A kiss in the moonlight

      A slip of tongue between my lips

      Bitter salt in my mouth,

      The taste of sex in my veins

      Stronger than sour mash

      Harder than liquid steel

      Your hands on my skin,

      Pouring fire into my veins

      —The Devil’s Brew

      MIKI EYED Damien suspiciously. His best friend was leaning over a glass case, staring down at rows of sparkling watches, and shaking his head at the salesman reaching for a diamond-encrusted timepiece.

      Nah, Sionn’s not like that, Damien muttered. Something solid. Not too heavy, but it has to have some weight on it. Good quality. Not flash.

      Walmart has some Seiko watches, I believe. Perhaps that will be more your style, sir. The man sniffed.

      Miki rolled his eyes and took a step away from the counter. Damie’s entire body stiffened, and he knew that cue well. Stepping away seemed like a damned fucking good idea, and if he’d known the sales guy was going to be an asshole, he’d have brought a tarp with him to spread out over the floor.

      Too bad about the carpet, Miki muttered to an older woman with a nametag attached to her lapel. Her overly painted mouth dropped open an inch, as if she were about to ask a question, but she stopped when she caught a good look at Miki. Her lips parted again, but the only sound coming out of her mouth was a high-pitched, whistling sigh.

      It was soon lost beneath the cut-glass sharpness of Damie’s Brit-tinged snark.

      Look, asshat— Damie didn’t get a chance to get wound up. The woman was quick; Miki had to give her that. Despite the distance between them and her pencil-high stilettos, she practically flew across the carpet and slid in between Damien and the salesman, a ring on her hand hitting the glass case hard enough to make it chime.

      The Giants probably wished they had her to cover second base, because she could move.

      Gary, I’ll take it from here. The look she gave the man behind the counter was worthy of an Ark of the Covenant opening with damnation hot on the trails of hellfire. Caught in her withering glare, he slunk away, disappearing into the shadows of a service desk near the door. Let me see if I can’t help you find something, Mr. Mitchell. Perhaps a Rolex?

      The watch perusal lasted too long for Miki’s thin patience, and he rubbed his Converse on the store’s dark blue rug. If he’d known Damien wanted to go to a pricy jewelry store, he wouldn’t have worn his most comfortable—and torn—pair of jeans or Kane’s threadbare Finnegan’s Pub rugby shirt. It was bad enough he’d been dragged through the stacked concrete tiers of the high-end mall. What made everything worse was knowing he didn’t belong.

      Because he never really belonged.

      Damien didn’t have that problem. He could fit in as easily at the Wet Queens bathhouse as he did among the diamond set, shifting his behavior and language to what he needed it to be. Even dressed in early rocker, something about Damien set people at ease, assuring them he was okay to be any damned place he wanted to be.

      Gary had been an aberration. Fucker was lucky the woman stepped in, because Damien didn’t like being shoved aside as if he were trash. Unlike Damie, Miki knew trash was pretty much what he was and tried not to pay attention to his best friend’s ranting to the contrary.

      Don’t stick your dick in or argue with crazy, Miki reminded himself while his best friend described what type of watch he wanted to buy his lover. Hoping to sneak a peek at a price tag, Miki was horrified to discover nothing in the cases actually listed a price. "Jesus Christ, we’re in a If you have to fucking ask, you can’t afford it joint. What the fucking hell is Damie thinking?"

      They were definitely smack dab in the middle of crazy.

      Hey, whatcha looking at? Damie snuck up behind him and put his chin on Miki’s shoulder, peering down at the case Miki’d been staring at. Those are tennis bracelets. Really?

      "Who the hell wears shit like

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