I like this author, but this book (somewhere between a short novella and a long short-story) just goes nowhere. It's engaging in the beginning but it ended abruptly, with little explanation as to the what's and why's things happened as they did. It was more a heartfelt tale about the difficulties of being openly gay and the effects of poor parenting on foster care children who finally find family when placed with a loving gay couple than about the unfolding science fiction story.