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

In spite of everything that had happened, I realized I didn’t want to die, not until I’d enacted a little revenge. I applied some moves my Brachi father had taught me and rolled free of him, sending him hard against the wall. I’d worry about him later. There was still Simmons, who wasn’t as out of it as I’d thought and who’d found his gun and gotten to his feet.


Chloe coiled in on herself, preparatory to launching an attack on him. Simmons’s eyes widened, and the gun wavered wildly in his trembling hand, aiming first at the python, then at me, and then back again at Chloe.


“No! No! Chloe, no!” I cried in a desperate attempt to stop her, but I was too late. Simmons fired, and the python’s big, yellow body dropped to the concrete floor. “She didn’t deserve that. Then again, she didn’t deserve these past years of misery.”


Chapter 56