A warm welcome back to author Rhys Ford joining us today on her blog tour for new release “Silk Dragon Salsa”, part 4 in the Kai Gracen series.
Check out Rhys her post and ofcourse the continuation of her short story.
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Hello!

And welcome back to my world of dragons, intrigue, hot guns, fast cars and a grumpy, slightly anti-social Chimera of a Sidhe and an Unsidhe who really only wants to hunt monsters and go home to his probably carnivorous cat. My name is Rhys Ford and I’ll be your guide today as on July 14th,I’ll take you back to the Kai Gracen series for Book Four — Silk Dragon Salsa.

If you’re following the blog tour from the beginning, you can skip this bit and head to the serialized part of the story but if this is your first time with me, let me ramble a bit about my grouchy special kitten, Kai. I’ve used the past three books to set up his relationships and world and kind of settling him for what should have been a changing environment. He’s never really had a lot of contact with the elfin and never really wanted any. Ryder, the Lord of the Southern Rise Court, blew into Kai’s life like a hurricane with a grudge and Kai’s had to not only learn how to get along with the man but also adjust to the fact the elfin are in his life to stay. Not something Kai ever wanted. He was raised by humans, thinks of himself as human, and was pretty happy about it.

Then his world changed and he was dragged kicking and screaming and probably stabbing into a bit of elfin affairs even as he knew it would probably be the death of him.

And in Silk Dragon Salsa, I really turn his world upside down.

It was a long time coming and Kai, in his true quick-on-his-feet fashion, knows he must change with it. Because the Merged world is going forward — with or without his approval — and this time, he has a chance for a bit of happiness, if he can find it in the chaos storm hunting him down in Silk Dragon Salsa.

Silk Dragon Salsa Giveaway

And what would be a blog tour without a giveaway? Enter to win a $20 USD gift certificate to the online etailer of your choice! Amazon! Dreamspinner! Starbucks! Funko! Where your heart desires so long as I can get the winner a gift certificate there! Enter at every blog on the tour because it’s a gift certificate giveaway for every stop!

Silk Dragon Salsa Information and Purchase Links

Kai’s fourth book is being published by Dreamspinner Press and I’ve had the fantastic honour of working with Chris McGrath again for its cover. Chris is a fantastic artist and he totally captured the feel of the book in this cover. I am so very grateful for his contributions in bringing Kai to life.

AND Greg Tremblay will once again bring his talent and gorgeous voice to breathing life and mayhem into Kai’s world as he narrates — nay, acts — Silk Dragon Salsa. I’ll be announcing the audiobook’s release date once I have it so watch my social media for further details.

Silk Dragon Salsa can be purchased at Dreamspinner Press, Amazon and other fine online ebook retailers.

Dreamspinner Link

Universal Amazon Link

And now… for License to Stalk, A Kai Gracen Short Story

Part Five

The ainmhi dubh we were tracking was old, a wily cunning beast who knew the terrain well enough to even use afternoon shadows against us. Dempsey figured the monster was nearing the end of its time or injured, something Jonas agreed with based on the thing’s massive uneven tracks. I disagreed but kept silent. Black dogs didn’t just die. Created by unholy Unsidhe spells, they survived on fear and pain, fueled by an evil I’d yet to see matched. Maybe they did slip off into nothingness after a certain period of time, the spell unraveling eventually.

That wasn’t a maybe I was going to bet on.

We were walking at the edge of an old forest, the trees heavy with sighs and the whispered dreams of people long dead. The contract came through a Post listing, tagged with a small bounty pulled together by a cooperative of rangers and farmers. It wasn’t a lot of money but there was some hope the thing’s hide would be large enough to put a dent in the state’s Stalker coffers. Most of the time, hunting ainmhi dubh was simply something Stalkers did when they came across the things but there were some areas desperate to bring someone in to get rid of their problems. Judging by the photos of mutilated cattle and the cauterized stump of a young woman’s arm, the ainmhi dubh wasn’t simply going to go away. There was too much to eat and the black dog was at the top of the food chain.

Or at least it was until we got there.

Yeah, I laughed when I thought that too.

Fucking thing was still top of the food chain but we at least had even odds.

It was our third day in the area and Jonas stuck with us for only two of them. Pulled away by a call from his marriage, he gave a few apologies but Dempsey waved him off. Family was why Jonas was a Stalker. It put food on their table and provided shelter for his spouses and kids. They came first. No questions asked. No apologies needed.

But damn, I did miss having him to split up the shifts.

“Hey.” Dempsey nudged me with his elbow and I look towards where he was staring, hunting for any hint of an ainmhi dubh. “No, you idiot. Here. Swear to Gods, boy. Act like you’ve got some sense. Take this.”

We’d been out in the rough for half a week, circling in tighter on the ainmhi dubh each day and with money being as lean as it was, there wasn’t any extra coin for luxuries. Even Dempsey was watering the whiskey at night and his cigars were damp mush from being chewed on but not lit. But there, pinched between his fingers, was a small bag of foil-covered chocolate drops.

Pure. Rich. Sweet. Silvery. Treasures.

“I—”

“Just fucking take it, boy.” Dempsey snorted, his attention swiveling back out towards the tree line ahead of us. “It’s weighing down my pack.”

I should have shot back that the half-filled bottle of whiskey he was lugging around weighed a hell of a lot more than the wee bag of chocolates but instead I said, “Thanks.”

There were seven in the bag. I took only one out and stashed the rest in my pack. We were on a hunt and there was no time to really stop but I let myself stand and close my eyes for a brief, delicious moment when the drop hit my tongue.

The stench of the ainmhi dubh nearly ruined my chocolate for me but with one whiff of it on the wind, I was ready for it and without swallowing, I unloaded my shotgun right into its rushing hulk.

 

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Silk Dragon Salsa by Rhys Ford

SoCalGov Stalker Kai Gracen always knew Death walked in his shadow. Enough people told him that, including his human mentor, Dempsey. Problem was, the old man never told him what to do when Death eventually caught up.

Where Tanic, his elfin father and the Wild Hunt Master of the Unsidhe Court, brought Kai pain and suffering, Dempsey gave him focus and a will to live or at least until everything unraveled. Now caught in a web of old lies and half-truths, Kai is torn between the human and elfin world, unsure of who he is anymore. Left with a hollowness he can’t fill, Kai aches to find solace in the one elfin he trusts, a Sidhe Lord named Ryder but he has unfinished business with Dempsey’s estranged brother, a man who’d long ago swore off anything to do with the feral elfin child Dempsey dragged up from the gutter.

Reeling from past betrayals, Kai searches for Dempsey’s brother, hoping to do right by the man saved him while trying to keep one step ahead of the death haunting his every step. Kai never thought he’d find love or happiness as a Stalker but when Death comes knocking at his door, Kai discovers a fierce need to live life to the fullest — even if that means turning his back on people he calls family.

About 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’s 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? She 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 a ginger cairn terrorist named Gus. Rhys is also enslaved to the upkeep 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
Facebook Group: Coffee, Cats, and Murder: https://www.facebook.com/groups/635660536617002/

Twitter: @Rhys_Ford

 

For more information and to keep track of his upcoming releases, visit Greg Tremblay at: https://gregtremblay.com/

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