title: Stellar Pleasures
author: McCall, Caroline
description: Time Slip
  Shocked by the brutal murder of her colleague, curator Ingrid runs for her life through the dark exhibit halls of the museum where she works--straight into the arms of Temporal Agent Strom. He's been sent back in time to stop a twenty-sixth-century criminal who is stealing artifacts from the past. Falling in love with Ingrid wasn't part of the mission. Strom knows they can have no future together. Five hundred years separate them, but the attraction that flares between the couple is impossible to resist. Their brief, passionate affair has consequences. When Strom returns to his own century, Ingrid must find a way to send him a message across time.
  
  Jake's Prisoner
  Seduced by a treacherous human, Tanith finds herself in the brig of a starship heading for Earth. Betrayed by Jake--the man she loves--Tanith is being hunted by every mercenary in the quadrant. They're convinced she holds the key to a crime lord's fortune. Cyraelian females have that little something extra, a symbiotic creature called a Dermatrax. Hers is about to fully mature, sending out a call for a mate, turning her into a sensual time bomb that no man can resist. On a ship full of human males, Tanith is a lethal weapon--and she wants revenge. But when Jake risks his life to save her, Tanith must decide where her loyalties lie. While she's tempted to return to her own world, she is just as drawn to handsome Jake. Her choice will have long-lasting consequences for all.
  
  Virtually Yours
  Ensign Charley has just completed years of the toughest training in the galaxy. She's given up her world, her family and her name to become a starship officer. Pete is engineer and designer of the prototype ship, the Pegasus. He has enough problems with a missing scientist and an Artificially Intelligent ship that refuses to communicate with anyone. The last thing he wants to do is mentor a cadet. But when the Pegasus is boarded by tech-hungry mercenaries, Pete and Charley could lose it all. Their AI ship may be their only hope.