Neal James is a space station navigator whose lover, Dylan Teague, left him for a starmapping mission. But when Dylan radios in a distant signal one night, Neal discovers that he hasn't managed to put the relationship behind him in the two months they've been apart. When he's one of the crew members sent to investigate the signal, he finds that his ex-lover feels the same.<br><br>The source of the signal is a lost colony ship. Only a handful of the original colonists remain, survivors of a deadly disease that killed most of their fellow shipmates twenty years ago. To keep the threat of disease to a minimum, the colony adheres to strict laws, including the prohibition of same-sex relationships.<br><br>When the same fatal virus seems to appear again, Neal and Dylan find themselves in the midst of an irrational panic and hate that threatens to destroy everything the colonists have worked so hard to attain.

Operation Starseed

“Right now?” I ask, hoping it sounds


coy and teasing and not the least bit like my blood’s on fire for


this boy in my arms, pinning me up to the door, but he thrusts into


me and I know he feels that hard thickness at my groin, aching at


the confines of my jumpsuit—I know he feels it against his own


erection because thatrubs along my thigh, as eager as his


“Now,” he breathes, and the hum of my


zipper when he pulls it down is lost in my low moan. His knee


presses between my legs and into my crotch, and then his hands are


slipping into my open zipper, smoothing along my naked chest,


cupping my erection through my thin boxers and then easing around


my hips, beneath the fabric, until he has one arm wrapped around my


waist, one hand cradling my bare ass, kneading hungrily. He buries


his face in my throat and I hug him close, my arms around his neck,


my lips in his hair and I moan his name again, he’s kissing me and


Chapter 27