The Portal of Wrong Love: A Poker Boy Story: Poker Boy

By Dean Wesley Smith

An elderly woman makes couples disappear right off the Las Vegas Strip.

Poker Boy and Patty must first stop her and then rescue the lost couples from some unknown place in time and space.

A story of aging, of love, and sanity.

And maybe just a little sex as well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Mar 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393850748

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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The Portal of Wrong Love

The Portal of Wrong Love

A Poker Boy Story

Dean Wesley Smith

WMG Publishing, Inc.

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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Chapter One

When your girlfriend appears and tells you that there may be a problem, any sane man perks up and pays attention.

Close attention.

I’m Poker Boy, a superhero in the poker universe, and my girlfriend, Patty Ledgerwood, aka Front Desk Girl, is also a superhero. So not only could a problem be in our relationship, but it could be something that meant the world was about to explode, and we had ten minutes to save everyone or die trying.

Yeah, that saving the world thing has happened a few times. Honest.

So when she appeared and said that there may be a problem, it was sort of a double pay attention moment.

Patty still wore her white blouse, brown slacks, and brown vest from her front desk job at the MGM Grand.

I’d just finished playing in a poker tournament down at the Golden Nugget, so I