Porches, Promises & Passing Storms: A Delaney Novel

By Greer Delaney

Storm damage brings out the best in Delaney.

And sometimes the worst.

Laurel Bennett arrives in town as a practical home-insurance adjuster after a storm leaves porches damaged, homes unsettled, and residents deeply invested in arguing about what should be saved. She understands risk, cost, and why pretending broken things are fine usually makes everything worse.

Mina Shaw understands something else.

As a restoration carpenter, Mina knows old houses carry memory. She believes some things deserve patience, craftsmanship, and a second chance-even when rebuilding would be easier.

When the damaged Whitmore porch becomes the center of Delaney's latest town-wide debate, Laurel and Mina land on opposite sides of a very public argument about preservation, safety, and what it means to rebuild smarter. But between inspections, temporary repairs, unsolicited town commentary, and one stormy night neither of them planned, their professional friction turns into something harder to ignore.

Laurel is used to leaving after the damage is assessed.

Mina is used to staying after everyone else goes.

Neither of them expects Delaney to make room for both.

Warm, witty, and full of small-town meddling, Porches, Promises & Passing Storms is a sapphic small-town romance about repair, resilience, chosen community, and the terrifying hope of building something meant to last.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HCKZ3S1Y
• ISBN13: 9798190273793
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"