Andrew Dorincourt has the blood of powerful shifters in his veins. It’s his job to take care of his siblings, who are his pack, and he has no intention of letting anything get in the way. However, he’s seen the love shared not only by his parents but by the Papas, the men who raised his mother, and he wants that for himself. The problem is none of the young women he’s dated have left him wanting anything more than to go home alone. Perhaps he’d have more success by dating men, as his brother does. Only it seems he’s not very successful at that, either. Da’ric is the son of Ric’u, a Brachi who’d been stranded on Terra for decades, and David Knight, an ichthyologist who traveled up the Amazon in search of his heart’s desire. Seeing the deep love his fathers have for each other, Da’ric determines to settle for nothing less. At any rate, the dating pool is pretty much empty in the Lagoon of Dreams, and so he goes to the States, where he intends to become a herpetologist. In order to do that, he must mingle with normals, Terrans who have no idea extraterrestrials share the planet with them. When he walks among Terrans, he must disguise his heritage by wearing sunglasses to conceal his rainbow-colored eyes and long-sleeved shirts to hide his scale-patterned skin. After being kidnapped and sold to a high-ranking member of the London underworld to be displayed as the Snake Boy, Da’ despairs of ever seeing his beloved family again, until Drew wanders into the House of Oddities and helps Da’ escape. Is it fate, kismet, or destiny that brings together the offspring of two very unique families? Have these two been waiting for each other, and will the future hold the love they’d both been seeking?

Rainbows in Your Eyes

She didn’t wait until the train chugged off into the night, just left the platform and strode into the woods surrounding it, the light of the moon guiding her path. It wasn’t full just yet, but it would be soon, and that made it all the more imperative she arrive at her destination before it rose tomorrow evening.


Clouds obscured the three-quarter moon, and she took the opportunity to slip behind a stand of trees and wait.


It wasn’t long before the two men approached her hiding spot.


“Dammit, I told you not to dawdle, Warrick,” the shorter one snapped. Oddly enough, she didn’t feel endangered by them. She was simply curious as to what they wanted of her.


“You’d have preferred to be on her heels and alert her to the fact we were following her?”


“That’s neither here nor there. We’ve lost her, and the grandmother is not going to be pleased with us.”


Warrick shrugged. “It’s too late to track her. We may as well find lodgings for the night.”


Chapter 13