Jude knows he isn’t relationship material. The entire population of Mars made it abundantly clear he’s damaged goods, and he agrees. His issues are why he works a remote job flying around the galaxy prospecting for metals, and why he ruthlessly quashes any feelings for Cal, his surveying partner.<br><br>Cal has been looking for an opening to suggest he and Jude could be more than friendly coworkers. When they crash on a tundra planet, the men have a lot of free time, and they put it to good use having sex. It’s fun, but Cal wants Jude as a boyfriend, not a friend with benefits.<br><br>Marooned on a hostile world, with Jude’s demons rearing their heads, Cal’s first task is to keep the two of them alive. His second is to convince Jude that, no matter how much he’s suffered, romance can still be in the cards.

Snowed In: Jude and Cal

Okay, he’d gotten one date, but the guy turned out to be a reporter trying to get inside information. Jude hadn’t been on a date since that disaster.


“Nope,” said Cal. “Not kidding.”


“My identical twin brother is a serial killer.” He wasn’t sure who he was reminding, Cal so he’d know why Jude was a relationship land mine, or himself so he didn’t get his hopes up that maybe Cal wouldn’t consider this a deal breaker.


“We’ve already established that.”


“I can’t even stand to look at myself in the mirror some days.” Not every day, which was an improvement, but still. He knew his reflection was the face eight people had seen on their killer. There was no way around it, nothing which could ever begin to make it right.


Yeah, he needed to start looking for a good cosmetic surgeon if he was ever going to be able to move forward with his life.


Cal gave him a sad, sympathetic smile. “Too bad. I like to look at you.”


Chapter 14