Wow, this was a nice surprise: a sci-fi story with a human and a gene-modified human/scorpion mix discovering they are hot enough for each other to 'mate'. Bertram thinks he is a boring scientist and El-Ashir believes most people think him ugly. Little do each of them know that they are all the other wants. When they finally do manage to get together, the additional fun to be gained by an extra set of arms is great, and the urgency of El-Ashir's desire is very hot.

If you like stories that explore the eccentricities of a human mating with an almost-alien, if hot sex with a few extra limbs seems interesting, and if you have a taste for the slightly exotic, you will probably like this story as much as I did. ( )