Star Caught

by Maia Strong

Not one to be tied down, traveling actor Miles Dashwood ventures from bed to bed as his theatre company ventures from town to town.

Jude Wells is a collector of stars, happily bedding the leading actor of each company that comes to town and never caring for a repeat performance.

Neither expects to find in the other more than a pleasant one-night tryst. So both are surprised to discover not only a kindred spirit but someone who might just put an end to their wandering ways.

22 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 4, 2025

About the author

Writing, acting, bellydancing, and teaching people to talk in funny voices. Who knew you could make a living doing stuff like that? I didn't, and in fact I can't. Those are the things I do to feed my soul rather than my stomach.

I've always written, but I never expected to write romance. I have documented evidence of a seafaring play I wrote in the second grade. Something involving a giant duck, if memory serves; I'm too scared to dig it out of the binder and find out for sure. Since that rather inauspicious beginning, I've turned my hand to fantasy, science fiction, action adventure (with dinosaurs, oo!), and now steamy romance--with fantasy in it because that is my first genre love. It's inescapable when the first time you read The Lord of the Rings is in the fourth grade. (I read Asimov's Foundation trilogy the next year, but I didn't really understand it. I have yet to try reading it again lo these many years later.)

Off the page, I work in a number of positions with local theatres, I bellydance, and I train and perform aerial. I enjoy traveling, eating good food, drinking good coffee, and hanging out with my husband and our kitties.