Midnight Lover (A Secrets in Solar City novella)

By Mae Powers

When actress Brynn Anders and ex-duke Jacques Corday are reunited, more than sensual sparks fly between the two, hard-headed ex-lovers. (An erotic romance novella, approx. 22,000 words or 74 pages. Cover by A. Bratt.)

Secrets in Solar City is a futuristic romance series of standalone novellas set in a fictional town in the near future, the year 2085. The eclectic residents of Solar City have many secrets and many sins to hide and thrive with the passionate lives they lead. Each novella is a complete story without having to read any others. Watch for more adventures of other characters in Solar City.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Silver Heart Books
• Release date: Sep 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466115767

Mae Powers

Mae Powers writes mixed genres of romance, sci-fi, fantasy, and futuristic, but she loves to also write paranormal, straight sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, and horror, plus other different things. She loves to read, write, play games, and create book covers and plans on expanding into mini graphic novels in the near future. You can visit her at www.maepowers.com for a complete list of her works and see what she's contriving to do lately. Email her at [e-mail]. Constructive feedback and a friendly hello are always welcome.

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Secrets In Solar City

Episode 1: Midnight Lover

Mae Powers

When actress Brynn Anders and ex-duke Jacques Corday are reunited, more than sensual sparks fly between the two, hard-headed ex-lovers.

An erotic romance novella, approx. 22,000 words or 74 pages.

Secrets in Solar City is a futuristic romance soap opera style series of novellas set in a mythical town in the near future, the year 2085. The characters have many secrets and many sins to hide. Solar City and its eclectic inhabitants thrive with the passionate lives they lead. Several of the series characters are introduced in this first novella, Midnight Lover. Watch for more serialized adventures of other characters in Solar City.

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Copyright 2011 Mae Powers

Cover Copyright 2011 A. Bratt

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Chapter One

Solar City, Texas - 2085

My body boils with heat for her, as fevered as the anger I sense within her heart.

Jacques Corday, ex-duke of Francia, couldn't help think this to be true. Brynn would not easily forgive him. He stayed out of view at the backside of the stage, intently watching the internationally famous entertainer Brynn Anders' vibrant performance. After frustrating years of not being near her, he knew how foolish he'd been to let Brynn fade out of his life. Especially during his younger days when his jealousy had torn their idealistic love apart.

Now, he thought, I will learn more about her love-aura, even if she tries to close herself off to me.

At one time, he'd taken his unusual gift of empathy for granted--he would not do so again. He needed to make Brynn understand his emotional perception of her went beyond normal means. He'd even felt empathically into the future, knowing that for certain something would bring her closer to his heart if only he believed strong enough and could make her realize they were meant to be together in the present as well as in the future.

It took him too many years to realize how deeply she affected his psyche and body. She existed in the spirit of his heart, yet he realized it would take blowing up mountains in order to get her to trust him or love him again.

Jacques let out a long frustrated sigh. He had never faced such insurmountable odds as the cold, hard stubbornness of one very desirable and problematic woman--an alluring beauty he intended to get back into his life any way he could.

When her arms moved in tune with her energetic performance, he studied her physical attributes with heated intensity. Though a tall, curvaceous woman, her instinctive, brisk movements carried a touch of elegance and grace. Time had complimented her natural beauty.

Even the stage lights, reflecting off her body as she swayed and made her skin glow with a soft and satiny sheen as when he first met her nearly twelve years ago. Her silvery ash brown hair puffed like a cloud when she tossed her head to the rhythmic beat of the song she sang. Her hair hung just past her shoulders, was parted on the left, and complimented her oval face. It gave her whole demeanor a sparkling, mystifying quality.

The same magical shine twinkled like silver stars in her almond-shaped gray eyes. Framed by long, dark brown lashes, her eyes often drew one to Brynn's magnetic personality. At times they reflected her emotions, such as when they were a smoky gray and one couldn't tell what she was feeling. It was when they were misty pools of dreaminess that he found them the most enchanting. Or when they turned to molten gray during anger he found her the most intoxicating.

Brynn's hypnotic allure showed through in every movie she made and every live appearance she performed. It stayed uniquely a Brynn Anders' trait, a mannerism that helped drive her right to the top of her profession as an entertainer in both the music and film industries. But it also added to her sex appeal. Though she had no real magical powers he knew of, Brynn blatantly exhibited an almost mystical, sexual magnetism that drew others to her fiery nature. For him, more than her physical beauty pulled him to her. He knew his empathic nature reeled like a fire going out of control when she roamed any vicinity near him. Brynn was his life-mate, but he'd have to move the cosmos or travel into their tomorrows to make her realize that.

A light touch on Jacques' arm made him look at the person standing next to him. An extremely tall, impeccably dressed, hulking man grinned down at him. The man's smile felt almost infectious, but irritating as well, as if it implied too much. She's about to finish up the concert. We'd better wait in her dressing room, Jacques.

Jacques quietly nodded at Luke Silvers then took one long last look at the woman on stage, before he followed Luke backstage. They went down a short corridor to a room marked with Brynn's name in sparkling silver letters. When Jacques entered the room, he briefly scanned the decor. Everything looked orderly, down to the cosmetics and large vase of flowers on top of the three-mirrored vanity in the room. An oriental dressing screen stood at one end of the room, and near it, a mobile hanger unit stuffed with glittering costumes.

Various posters from the concert hall's famed performers lined the walls. Two comfortable armchairs, a small table between them, and the lighted vanity with its cushioned stool made up the furniture in the white-walled room.

Even with the door closed behind them, the echoing roars of the crowd in the concert hall filtered into the dressing room. The sounds almost rocked the place apart. Jacques tingled with some anticipation and dread at the knowledge that she would soon be coming. But first,