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Getting to know the HEAT series by Susanna Eastman
There’s something incredibly fun about writing about a world that only exists in my head.
That’s one of the reasons I love writing sci-fi alien romances, and writing about characters facing sexual heat has given me a great way to put my characters into awkward situations (okay I’m torturing them) and entertain readers.
In the HEAT series, I introduce the Zomas from the planet Vanta: a family living about 3,000 years in the future with six sons and one daughter. The Zomas live in a world where the female birth rate is abysmal, and few females are fertile. Because of this, females across the galaxy have become targets to sex slave traffickers. The three oldest Zoma sons—Jaxon, Jaden and Joran—operate an intergalactic trade business. The brothers also become part of a special coalition dedicated to rescuing females stolen by nefarious traffickers.
The first three stories in the HEAT series are: Captive Heat, Timeless Heat and Desperate Heat. (All are standalones.)
Captive Heat
She was captured by sex slave traders, and he was her only hope
When intergalactic trader Jaden Zoma rescues beautiful teacher Mia Townes from sex slave traders, she thinks her problems are over. Being kidnapped was awful, and Mia can’t wait to get back to the family that means everything to her.
Jaden is dedicated to helping those in need and never expects to need anyone else. He has few roots, and he likes it that way. Their paths should never have crossed.
But when their bodies are sabotaged—first by the slavers and then by nature—they must put aside honor and virtue to save each other.
What happens when their crazed journey ends, and it’s time to move on?
*** SNEAK PEEK ***
“Jaden, you’re so hot. What can I do?” Panic gripped Mia’s throat. She trembled as her fingers combed through his dampened hair. “Is there any medicine I can get you…something in your medical pack?”
Her eyes tore around the room. She hadn’t noticed any type of medicine when she’d dressed his wound before. If he couldn’t respond, how would she find anything to help?
Jaden wet his lips, and Mia choked back a sob of relief. He was trying to talk; he could understand her.
“Medicine won’t help,” he gasped.
“How do you know? We need to take care of your fever.”
“I’m not sick.” He raised his head to speak but fell limp with a pitiful moan.
She waited for him to explain, but his mouth slowly shut and his eyes closed. “What is it then?” She grabbed a corner of their blanket and wiped sweat from his brow. “Do you know what’s wrong?”
He nodded his head, but an explanation still didn’t come.
“What? Tell me!”
“I will be all right,” he murmured, his lids opening a crack.
Jaden’s weak reassurance did nothing to reduce her sense of panic. “Okay, that’s good, but in the meantime, tell me what’s wrong with you.”
A battle waged in his eyes. Finally, Jaden took a breath and swallowed hard. “I’m in heat.”
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Timeless Heat
Only a woman from the distant past could save his life
Adrift in space and trapped in a deadly cycle of unrelenting sexual heat, intergalactic trader Joran Zoma is on the brink of death. His only hope lies in Ava Fisher, a woman from Earth's distant past.
Recently divorced biomedical scientist Ava is thrust into a new reality when Joran transports her across time and space, pleading for her help. To save his life, Ava must give herself to him—a connection that sparks a passion neither expected. But as their bond deepens, Ava faces an impossible choice: return to the life she knows or embrace an uncertain future with Joran. Can love bridge the vast distance between their worlds?
*** SNEAK PEEK ***
Joran nodded and awkwardly shifted his body away from Ava. His fingers dug into the soft arms of his chair. “As a biologist, you’re familiar with sexual heat?”
“Of course.” She’d learned about that in high school biology 101. “Some female animals experience…”
Joran shoot his head, interrupting. “It hasn’t been that way in a long time. For more than a millennium, humanoid males have gone through sexual heat cycles. Some believe it’s nature’s response to increasing female infertility. The storm critically diminished my testrus causing me to go into severe heat. Normally, early onset or out-of-cycle
heat is only painful if unsatisfied, but my levels are so weakened…”
He pressed his lips together and sighed. “Without the high estrus levels of an Alpha female I’ll die.”
Her eyes shot open as realization dawned on her. He didn’t want her blood, her cells… The straining bulge between his legs spoke volumes, but Ava pressed on, needing to be very, very clear.
“When you say you need a female with high estrus, you mean…”
“Only through sexual…” His hand, so stiff, ran through his thick, short-cropped hair. The muscles all over his body tightened as he forced the words out. “I brought you here to mate with me and save my life.”
Timeless Heat:
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Desperate Heat
She's planned a life without love. He's determined to change that.
Jessamyn Zoma has lived in a virtual bubble. Born sterile and sexually unresponsive like many females on her planet, she’s sheltered by her loving family. She longs for independence and a path she can call her own.
To Tomas Zute, the Zoma clan are family. The esteemed Vantan warrior would die for any one of them, but Jessamyn means the most of all. When she's captured and drugged by sex slave traders, she’s made to feel things she’s never felt before. Tomas comes to her rescue, and there's only one way to soothe her symptoms. But the cost—their years of cherished friendship—is just too high. What happens when the heat cools, and she's back to "normal"? Can hours of temporary pleasure change everything?
*** SNEAK PEEK ***
“There she is.” The Bermer nodded toward the young, dark-haired female strapped naked and spread-eagle on a narrow metallic table in the center of a sterile-looking room. Just four walls and Jessamyn bound from wrist and ankle. “As you can see, she’s not been damaged.”
Tomas’s breath caught in his throat, relief and fury meshing together and rolling through him like a thunderous wave. Jessamyn! She writhed on the hard surface beneath her body, fighting with bindings she couldn’t possibly break. Goddess, she looked so small and vulnerable.
Tomas wanted to strangle the despicable creature beside him, but that would have to wait. He turned to his teammate. “Secure him in a holding cell.” Then he focused his attention on the room.
“Jessamyn!” He raced toward her, his hand clenched to the laser weapon in his side holster, checking the small sparse space for hidden threats or other obstacles. He’d kill anyone else in the room, anyone even near her, without a second thought.
“Oh, Tomas. You’re here!” She twisted her head toward him and cried out, her soft voice quivering with relief. “These awful people…they want to hurt me, and I’ve tried so hard to fight them.” She groaned under the weight of it all. “I’ve never been so afraid.”
He swallowed hard, fighting to ease the agitation flowing through his body. Screaming, bellowing wouldn’t help her right now. “You’re going to be fine.”
“I’m not fine at all!” Her voice rose, then she paused, her eyes widening. “My colleagues, the other females in my group…?”
“They were sedated, and my medical team is caring for them now.”
Her face scrunched into a painful grimace. “I can’t believe this happened to us.” Then, as if suddenly remembering her nakedness, she jerked and twisted in the other direction, trying without success to hide the front of her slender form. “Don’t look at me, Tomas!” Her dark hair slapped on the table beneath her head. “It’s wrong for you to see me like this.”
He blinked and pulled in a controlled breath, his eyes shifting to her taut face. Argh, he had to focus there, just there. “Stop struggling. You’re injuring yourself. I need to cut all these cords.” His gaze flicked to the strained bands that bound both her wrists and ankles, but then strayed to her exhausted body stretched on the narrow table and the juncture between her spread legs.
Oh Goddess.
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*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR ***
Susanna Eastman
I was a public relations writer before I turned to romantic fiction. While I enjoyed working in the corporate world, it was more fun to write about the sexy characters in my head.
I was fortunate to meet my personal romance hero during college. We met at a fraternity party my freshman year at school and became fast friends. One night I was eating dinner at his fraternity, and my future husband suavely sat on an empty table beside me to chat. Unfortunately, that table was missing a leg and it collapsed on my arm. When he called the next day to check on me, I had to tell him my arm was broken. (It was!) Devastated but still gallant, he asked me out on a date. We’ve now been married more than a few decades and have two teenage sons.
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