My Sexy Saturday: My Sexy Night Out

This week’s My Sexy Saturday theme is supposed to involve a date, but my new release, Buck, Naked (Chronicles of the Malcolm 3), doesn’t involve any actual dates. This is a science fiction romance, and Buck and Aleema have a nasty common enemy who’d like nothing better than to capture Aleema and eliminate the entire crew of the Malcolm in one blaze of bloody glory. As a result, Buck and Aleema’s “dates” involve frantic pursuits, outer-space evasive maneuvers, and stylish shooting.

Yet somehow they manage to steal a few minutes for romance–until the bad guys catch up, that is.

“The back of a stolen cargo flyer isn’t where I’d have picked for my first sexytimes in a star’s age.” Aleema’s usually husky voice was breathy, and her words came out all floaty, as if they weren’t affected by gravity. “But it’s getting mighty appealing….”

“At least there are flowers. Well, petals, anyway. That’s romantic, right?” There was something about it in one of Rita’s books. Buck had thought it sounded silly and messy, but then Rita and Drax had given each other one of those looks and he’d gotten the feeling that they had a story or two involving flower petals, maybe those Vicarian lilies Drax was always buying for her.

“It’ll do.” Aleema’s voice was husky, urgent, and so were her hands on his body.

Just then, the ’bot pilot began to bleat a proximity alarm. It was a ’bot programmed to fly a vessel in a busy urban air-space. It should able to handle a potential collision, right? But the instinct to protect was too strong. Buck reluctantly tore himself away to check out what was going on, noting Aleema was moving with him, not even bothering to deal with her missing shirt until the problem was solved.

He looked at the instrument panel, then out the flyer’s viewscreen.

Oh marling stars. He was looking right into a gun port.

Blurb:

To save him, she must strip him bare.
Security expert Buck’s senses are inhumanly keen, to the point he can see through time and space, and that’s just the start of his odd abilities—thank you, alien captors. He also experiences paranoia, flashbacks, and the occasional hallucination—thank you, PTSD. No wonder he fears he could hurt one of the Malcolm crewmates he lives to protect, the closest thing to family he has left after the destruction of his home planet.
Brilliant scientist Aleema can teach him how to use his modifications without triggering  PTSD. She’s survived the same meddling aliens and suffered even more dramatic alterations. At least her unwanted immortality means she’s had time to figure out how the modifications work and use the knowledge to aid other survivors. Helping Buck means spending some serious time together.

Time enough to fall in love.

Just as happiness seems within their grasp, Aleema realizes one of Buck’s modifications dooms him to an unthinkable future. To save him, she must place herself in the hands of their common enemy and leave Buck to face his worst fears without her.

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