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

“This form I like, and I can feel so much more, which I like as well.”


Alex echoed the sentiment with a brush of his lips over the creamy skin, and Mani shrieked with laughter as though the kiss tickled him.


“My last form I could sustain very well here, but it would alarm most humans. Although…” Mani stroked Alex’s chin. “I think you would find it attractive to look upon. I just meant that people would notice me, and wonder what I was and so fear me.”


As if they could fail to notice you now. Still grinning, Alex trailed a finger down the centre of Mani’s chest. “More attractive than this?”


“Oh, stop it,” Alex chided gently, nudging the other man. “You know I do.”


Chapter 23