'Bodies of Light' by Lisabet Sarai "Love travels faster than light." Physicist Dr. Christine Monroe has devoted her lonely life to research on hyper-space travel.Her continued failure leads her to sign on to the Archimedes, a sub-light-speed mission aimed at establishing a colony in the Sirius B system. Waking from suspended animation, she discovers that the ship is wildly off course and the rest of the crew are dead due to equipment failure. 'The Sevarian Way' by Justine Elyot "In space, no-one can hear you scream. So you can spank as hard as you like." Commander Azed Paul and Ensign Suka Demontel are space anthropologists in a future civilisation where kink is illegal. Both have learned to repress their natural sexuality, but Suka's undergraduate work on the ancient practice of BDSM has captured Paul's professional attention, and his less academic interest too.This makes her the perfect crew member to accompany him to the surface of Paladium Three, a dead planet where old-fashioned service and discipline were woven into the fabric of life. 'Europa Europa' by KS Augustin "The Company appreciates its genetically modified humans...as long as they don't get any smart ideas." Salvia is a genetically modified human, at home in the oceans of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Intelligent, young, lonely, she demands that the mysterious "company" that employs her send a companion or she'll never work for them again. With no choice, the company creates Rhus, a young brash male. But a relationship that begins with mistrust ends up forging deep links between the pair and they look forward to a happy life together. 'Star Struck' by Buffi BeCraft "Smart girls know two things. Don't pick up hitch-hikers and avoid dangerous men." Down-on-her-luck trader captain, Drew Roberts' fascination for dangerous men is equal to her need for a crew. When the sexy alien kith pair, Ashwin and Kormec wanders onto her ship with the offer of passage for repairs, she knows trouble is not far behind. But a gi