The Back Stairs — K.C. Kendricks

Fallon Roxbury has a nose for trouble, and the uncanny ability for landing in the middle of it the moment he finds it. While investigating the gruesome murder of a young male prostitute in the red-light district, Fallon gets a whiff of something strange. Forensics has unidentified hairs. Very unidentified hairs, like nothing in any of the textbooks. Following a tip from a person of interest, Fallon meets Sundown, an apparent hustler who apparently knows a lot more than he will admit.

Getting personally involved with Sundown breaks every rule in the police manual, and in Fallon's own personal code. But Sundown is like a drug, and Fallon can't stop at taking only one hit. Yet when Sundown is forced to reveal the truth about the murder, Fallon's world is turned upside down, and he's left with only two options -- check himself in for psychiatric evaluation, or accept a new reality with a strange shift.

Shapeshifters, that is...

Genres: Gay / Shapeshifter / Science Fiction / Mystery / Detective