Brian Beauchamp is sent across the solar system to the ninth planet, Pluto, to help improve the terra forming efforts there. Unfortunately, his ex-lover, Zack Kirkland, is stationed there, too.<br><br> Zack left Brian without a word three years earlier. Both men are going to be stuck on Pluto for a long time. Will they be able to work through their unresolved past? Or will things between them make their life in deep space unbearable?

Pluto's Heart

Good thing the Company doesn’t change the set up on any of the buildings. He stepped inside. It’s almost like coming home


Where the hell is that anymore? I’ve been from one side of this fucking solar system to the other and I have no idea where the fuck I belong


He punched the button on the wall next to the inner door and the outer one closed behind him. A dim light came on and, with the loud hissing noise, air pressurized the small space.


“Please do not remove your helmet or space suit,” a disembodied voice said from somewhere inside. “Pressure and temperature are not yet at standard levels.” The door in front of him slid back, like the outside panel, revealing a second, similar chamber. Brian stepped forward and the process repeated. A third portal opened.


Chapter 4