Whoever said space was cold, never found love from the stars ... Some people never learn. This is the tune playing once again in Alex Beaumont’s head when he sees a vision in white attracting odd glances in the quiet little seaside resort of Padstow. He came to get away from it all, to bury himself in work, to forget every man he ever falls for eventually needs to get away ... from him. Adrift in the universe, Mani searches for a place to call home. The planet he finds is cold and inhospitable, not at all what he was expecting. He feels lost and alone, until a stranger’s smile warms him. And with that smile comes another kind of heat, one he’s never before experienced. Love is not what Alex ever imagined it to be. They say space is infinite, but the distance between what Alex wants and what he has experienced romantically seems to be growing ... until now. Like a shooting star, he’s about to fall long and hard. Will he crash and burn, or find the love he’s always dreamed of when looking at the night sky?

Space, Man

“So what’s your name?” Alex eased the brush through the pale skeins of hair. He tried to ignore the desire to toss the brush aside and use his fingers as a comb.


“I don’t have one. Not one you could pronounce, anyway. I am not from around here.”


Ohhhkaaayyy. Maybe Alex was wrong about David poking fun. Maybe he’d escaped from a mental institution. Never mind about screwing the unexpected guest—what did the authorities do to people who wanted sex with the mentally-challenged? IfDavid was such a thing and not a con-man. As for his mental health, Alex wasn’t sure whether that meant the other man or his own psychological state. Who in his right mind could think about sex when he should be worrying about things more important?


Chapter 10