Mindscan

Buildup #1

by Jules Jones

When Union Captain Reeve rescues renegade Protectorate scientist Marc Frampton, it’s his job to convince Frampton to give his loyalty to the Union. Reeve doesn’t mind the assignment. He admires Frampton’s courage in resisting interrogation under torture and his obvious intelligence. And he has the patience to wait ‘til Frampton is ready to give up his knowledge…and his body.

Frampton doesn’t do loyalty. Little wonder, after all he’s been through. He does, however, recognize a debt to the Union, and finds them a hell of a lot more congenial than his last employers -- the ones who arranged his tour of hell. He also likes Reeve. A lot more than he’s prepared to admit, because the secrets he’s keeping aren’t just scientific.

Reeve stumbles on Frampton’s kink quite by accident. The scientist’s D/s bent, and his need for multiple partners, doesn’t bother Reeve, but convincing Frampton may be the hardest mission Reeve’s ever undertaken.

How far are you willing to go to satisfy your lover?

Publisher's Contains male/male sexual practices, domination/submission.

Genres: M M Romance, BDSM, Romance, Gay, Fiction, Erotica, Futuristic

71 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 22, 2005

About the author

Jules Jones is a British author of science fiction and erotic romance, mostly with m/m themes. Much of her work is cross-genre, being science fiction or fantasy with a strong romance element. Her day job is materials science, and it tends to show -- many of her characters are scientists, engineers, and sundry other geeks.

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I write science fiction, fantasy and romance. I read *lots* of things.

My main library catalogue is over on LibraryThing, because I'm the sort of anal-retentive bibliophile who wants to record the exact print run and page count of my individual copy of a book. This account's always going to be a somewhat out of date and partial mirror. But it lets me put my book reading log up on GoodReads to share with my friends over here. :-)

Reviews

[JenMcJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

There isn't a lot of action in this one it is more of a psychological character study with some intrigue thrown in. It was a good book. The sex is pretty erotic. The emotional sex/connection is between the two main characters but Frampton is pretty messed up in the head sexually. He has anonymous sex with multiple partners which is explained well and accompanied by Reeve who is fully aware.

The ending is a bit vague. I did feel that they would stick it out for the long haul but it was not explicitly spelled out that way.

The second book is Pulling Strings which is based in the same space system but does not cross over with this story.

[Erica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, my first from this author. The pragmatism of both MCs was refreshing, and their willingness to be open to new things sexually was thrilling. They were just such good, likeable guys, wading through their quagmire of issues without recrimination or judgement. Too often in romance novels I feel like an MC is just not worth pursuing, too unlikable to justify the effort put in to win their affections, but not here. These guys may be damaged, but their appeal is evident as well.

I'm off to the Amazon store to see what else I can read from this author.

[Mati · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another masterpiece of Jules Jones hinted with right amount of D/S. There are plenty of action on the background of political turmoil. Two men, each on opposite site were thrown in to the relationship that nobody expected. Scientist and captain both making out the unique pair only to rock the space ship and not only it.