Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Chasing Safe Harbor

SERIES: Rugged Coast (Book 1)

AUTHOR: Andrew Grey

PUBLISHER: Andrew Grey Books

LENGTH: 104 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 15, 2024

BLURB:

The last thing DEA contractor Thorsen Magnus wanted was an assignment that brings him back to where he grew up, a small town four hours north of San Francisco. He left years ago to get away from his intolerant father and hasn’t been anxious for a reunion. But he has a job to do, and his reward might turn out to be more than he hoped for.

Michael Constantine trained as an architect, but now works for his father’s construction company. Unlike his golden child younger brother, he does all his family expects and still feels like he can never do anything right for his father. Needing time to think, he goes to his favorite spot overlooking the ocean, where he witnesses something strange through the fog, and in the process nearly falls right into Thor’s strong arms.

Thor had been hoping to see a rendezvous off the coast, but Michael’s presence changes everything. Thor needs to know what he saw, but as attraction builds with Thor’s attempts to get Michael to confide in him, so does Thor’s caution about starting a relationship, no matter how strong the desire. Eventually they agree to work together, but any investigation in a small town has the potential to come close to home and could terminate their fledgling relationship before it really begins.

REVIEW:

This blurb sounded so interesting that I knew I just had to have this book. Now I’m hooked and can’t wait to see where this series takes us. I don’t know if it follows Thor and Michael but I hope so.

Thor is stuck chasing down clues, as DEA contractor, back in his home town area. He’s thrilled to be around his sister as she awaits the birth of her first child. But seeing his Dad is a no-go! He’s a main reason he left this town. When Thor encounters a surprise, when doing his surveillance on the jagged cliffs over the California coast, he witnesses a fine looking man nearly fall off the cliffs when the edge gives way. But did the man witness anything at sea with the dense fog rolling in?

This didn’t go how I expected it to much to my pleasant surprise. Michael’s father misplaced admiration of his “golden child” brother while he continues his constant digs at Michael would have made most men up an leave. He was top of his class at Penn graduating with a degree in architecture but his father basically has him in charge of a construction crew putting out the fires his old man starts. I think that the excitement of working along side Thor as the drug case unfolds was a pleasant diversion from his humdrum life. But when sparks fly and both men could no longer resist the pull of the man they each had eyes for this book heated up another notch. I love the intrigue of figuring out where the boat that Michael saw came from. And when they tracked it down I particularly liked how they worked together to get the truth.

I am hoping we will have more cases that these two wind up working on and we watch where they go.

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