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

virus from the Terran Twentieth Century, the spore can lie dormant


in a victim for years. In some rare cases, it never even surfaces.


Those whom it doesn’t kill within the first three days probably


will notsuccumb to the disease, but they are carriers for


it. They can pass it to others through intense contact with bodily


fluids—blood, semen, plasma. They may never die from it, but anyone


they come in contact with who isn’t immune will contract the


Beside me, Rion murmured, “So it might


warming me inside. He had his chair close to mine again; he likes


to sit like that when the others are gone, practically in my lap,


his hand on my knee or my arm or holding my own. When it’s just us


here we’re always kissing, always touching. I can’t get enough of


Chapter 7