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

I barely get the words out before he’s


crawling onto me, all hands and kisses. Somehow he manages to get


my shirt off without seeming to remove his lips from mine, and my


pants are gone, lost somewhere beneath the covers at the foot of


the bed. “Neal,” he sighs, his mouth on the hollow of my throat, my


nipples, my belly button. His tongue trails along my erection,


around my scrotum, over hidden flesh. He licks into me until I arch


against him, and his hands cradle my buttocks, pull me to him. When


he takes me into his mouth, I gasp his name and fist my hands into


the sheets, his tongue swirling down around me, he’s so hot, so


soft, so wet and amazing and I thrust into him, once, twice,


trembling, but he’s a gentle lover, he holds me tight until my


heart stops its wild beating, whispers he loves me, he wants me, he


needs me. Me.He’s tender when he enters me, kissing my


Chapter 115