Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance
LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay
Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild
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About The Book
Federated Planets ambassador Tamlin Rye is headed home, having just finished a successful negotiation. Tam’s looking forward to some rest … but the beautiful mysterious captain of his courier ship is more tempting than restful.
Captain Valentine Perrin doesn’t sleep well. He might be young, but he’s seen his share of difficult missions. His starship’s observation deck offers solitude on those nights … until his new passenger interrupts.
And, on this starlit night, Tam and Val will both find exactly what they need.
The Review
A little jewel of a short story, set in the observation deck of a sleek spaceship. A distinguished Terran ambassador is being shuttled back to Terra after accomplishing a hugely delicate and successful interplanetary peace mission. He is reveling in both the beauty of the spacecraft, and in the exhilaration of what he has done.
Then he realizes that he’s not alone.
I was so startled by the fact that this ended—it felt like the opening salvo in a rich romantic story. It is a quiet, passionate playing out of the romantictrope, from the great musical “South Pacific:” Some enchanted evening, you will meet a stranger…
It left me yearning for more…
Four stars.
The Reviewer
Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave It to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale, and was trained to be a museum curator at the University of Delaware. A curator since 1980, Ulysses has never stopped writing fiction for the sheer pleasure of it. He created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel to Desmond, is his second novel.
Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of over 41 years and their two almost-grown children.
By the way, the name Ulysses was not his parents’ idea of a joke: he is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, and his mother was the President’s last living great-grandchild. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City.
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