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

Erik and Ashok had comprised roughly fifty percent of the very first Amateur Hour audience, and had watched Phyllis brave something of a rocky start before they worked up the nerve to give it a go of their own, but in the months since the mixed bag that had been the duo’s debut, word had spread in a certain segment of Santa Fe’s community. The show had been bumped from Tuesday to Friday. Along with Rose Marian Thyme, Midnight and Raima had joined Phyllis as the permanent headliners known as The Crossing Guards, and each girl’s fan club contributed to a crowd that, if it wasn’t exactly SRO, was exponentially bigger than anything The Crossing saw during the week. Amateurs and newcomers to drag joined the girls on stage once a month, and the other Fridays each girl did three numbers each; a show short enough to encompass most attention spans but long enough to boost Elias’s take for the week, even at his crowd-enticing happy hour prices.


Chapter 15