Tylar Daire is the navigator on a space mission whose focus is to discover a cure for a mysterious illness killing colonists on Terra. The crew consists of the captain, a soldier for protection, a scientist to study the virus, Tylar himself, and hot-shot ace pilot Rion Z'ev. From the moment Tylar and Rion meet, sparks fly. They try their best to keep their growing relationship from the others, but when they're alone on the bridge during the day, or holed away in the sleeping quarters at night, they can't keep their hands off each other.<br><br>Soldier Jareth is an old friend of Tylar's. When he begins to suspect he's caught the virus they're trying to cure, he swears Tylar to secrecy. But Jareth gets worse, until he can't hide it any more, and he collapses out in the field. Will the crew be able to defeat the virus, or is it too late to save them all?

Navigator's Log

simply, because I’m the scientist. At the eager expression


on Rion’s face, he sighed. “You don’t realize the nature of this


thing we’re dealing with. It’s a gamete, a spore that gets in your


blood and replicates until it clogs your veins. It’s a living


organism, gentlemen. It’s almost like the reproductive part of a


“No, not like pollen.You don’t die with a hemorrhagic fever


Jareth started, but Ansel glanced at him and he shut up


didn’t get a sample of the pond scum,” Rion asked, just to clarify


arms and set them on the workbench along with the others. “I didn’t


feel it was necessary. If I exhaust all other life then maybe,


maybe,I’ll take a closer look at it. We’ve got some on


board the ship already, thanks to our fearless soldier boy here


Chapter 5