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

The light intensified, until blinded, Alex gasped, squeezed his eyes tightly shut, turning his face and body away. He could swear he felt heat, and then…everything dimmed. After a few blinks, he took a careful look. For a second he believed Mani had vanished. The wooden bed frame and faded wallpaper were as evident as was Mani’s outline. Details of the room appeared through him as if Alex were looking through a ghost.


The ghost lifted one hand, brushing fingers over Alex’s face, but even this sensation grew lighter, lighter, lighter still, until it faded away. The last of Mani to fade were those violet eyes and then even they winked out in a white pulsing source of light, flame-like, containing little violet sparks.


Chapter 24