Santa Fe attorney Danny Hanrahan loves life in his adopted hometown. He’s got good friends, a great job, and a gorgeous home. The only thing he’s missing is someone with whom to share it all, but when his trusty assistant Monica sets him up with her sexy son Ashok, Danny quickly considers the “boyfriend” box checked, too.<br><br>Ashok is fit, charming, and dynamite in the sack; falling in love with him is a piece of cake. Embracing Ashok’s alter ego, celebrated drag diva Raima Reason, proves to be more of a challenge. Danny divorced his wife for a reason, and it wasn't so he could go out and find someone who takes even longer than she did to put on makeup. When Raima's career looks set to take off, Danny has to decide if he's along for the ride, or if a boyfriend who's sometimes a girl is more than he can handle.

Love Has Reasons

Given permission so to do in this pioneering manner, Ashok tapped into his own passion for sequins and show tunes and, in short order, after raiding Monica’s vast store of bangles and his Ammaji’s closet for a show-stopping gold-threaded sari, he hit the stage as Raima Reason, an exotic beauty whose sensual curves came from cut-up couch cushions and whose bejeweled sandals came from a barrel in the Asian Foods aisle at the Whole Foods. Local celebrities Midnight and Raima were not, but an outlet for their creativity and an excuse to prance about in faux diamond tiaras had added sparkle to long-dingy facets of both boys’ personalities and brought them closer, which had scarcely seemed necessary.


Chapter 10