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

Identical twins? Could he be a serial killer waiting to happen?


I’d sleep with one eye open around him.


And, most of all, he saw his brother the one and only time Jude had gone to visit him in prison, hoping to get answers. He found none, only John telling him, “The first time I killed it was that stupid bird, and I knew right away I’d kill again, even people. It’s a high like nothing else, Juju. The power to hold life and death in your hands, to play God.”


He couldn’t press the button. Even if it meant he would die, and Cal too, his hands might as well have been stuck in cement.


Cal routed weapons control to his own computer. “It’s us or them,” he said.


Jude knew it. He still couldn’t move his hands. He just sat there like a fucking useless statue, watching while Cal took aim and shot one of the yetis beating up their solar panels.


Chapter 16