A tender family story with some truly wonderful characters and interactions. I'm looking forward to seeing where they head in the following books!

This is a fun little novella that was a pleasure to read. It was entertaining and made me smile quite a bit. It’s only about 95 pages so it’s quite a short read.

Dane is the premier consultant in cases of a supernatural nature. So when a case of dragons tangling with planes comes up on the Federal Bureau of Supernatural Investigation’s radar, it’s referred to him. Dane immediately uses his magic to track down the dragons. His first encounter is an amusing one.. he discovers baby dragons in a forest! The reason that they are running amok seems to be a sick father Dragon!

Without a second thought, Dane gathers them all up and “magics” them to his home. He brings in a doctor and a friend to help with the kits. His house rather quickly becomes chaotic! Each of the kits has a very different personality with individual quirks. This was what made this book most enjoyable for me!

Lumie is an odd little toddler dragon who seems to be able to break through any magical wards and boundaries. Nickel is a little fighter and is fiercely protective of his father! Mercury – the adult dragon is very ill with dragon fever and as he recovers it becomes clear that things in their family are not what they initially seem!

There’s a bigger mystery within this novella… and I’m not going to spoil it for you. Suffice to say there’s a lot more going on than one dragon family simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There is a queer relationship in this novella It begins very subtly and is quite sweet.

All in all, this was enjoyable and there’s another installment coming!

I read Mell eight years ago and remember enjoying the stories but this one was a miss for me. I liked the dragon lab plot but the entire romance was very rushed and completely unbelievable. The excuses each made in their head felt juvenile and just there to have some sort of conflict. Neither made any sense as both were supposed to be these rare, very special, and magical beings. Also, since the MC had such strong magic, there wasn’t ever any real sense of suspense in any of the fights. Also, the MC’s heritage was not very well developed. The whole thing just felt rushed. This seems to be a reprint of another one from LT3 Press closing, as there appears to be a full series previously published.

I remember enjoying the few paranormal gay romances I had read from Mell Eight years ago, but did not like this one. I feel that this novella could have benefited from more editing, for its repetitive statements, for too much detail in some aspects and too little in others, for vague characterization. What I did not feel was a connection between the main protagonists; their relationship was too much lust-at-first-sight to have developed into cohabiting and co-parenting in a matter of days (weeks?).