Contact

By Tatum Throne

What would you do if they contacted you?

NASA scientist Cooper Hart is dying. He’s determined to spend his final days hoping to hear a signal from a far away world. When the encryption first comes in, he quickly discovers that this isn’t a prank. They want to meet.

Elian Moten has spent the last four years searching for a life form compatible to his. His world is dying from the lack of ability to reproduce. They need males to repopulate. After researching the planet within the Benidi Region, also known as Earth, he chooses Cooper Hart to bring back to the royal family. He isn’t prepared for the intense attraction he feels for Cooper or the overpowering urge to claim him.

After three months aboard the Titan, Cooper wakes up to discover he isn’t dead. He’s been given a second chance, but he’s not sure if he’s prepared to take it. When he looks at Elian, he only knows how to say yes.

Reader Advisory: Sci-Fi MM erotic romance, containing consensual relationship between human and alien. Light BDSM, spanking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Luminosity Publishing LLP
• Release date: Jan 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781910397176

Tatum Throne

Tatum Throne lives in Cincinnati with her real life hero, Mr. Throne.She has a master’s degree in social work that she received from the University of Cincinnati. She left the field of medical social work in 2007 to be a stay-at-home mom of three rowdy boys, and to pursue her dreams of writing romance.When not indulging her fantasies or writing, Tatum enjoys heading to the beach to build sandcastles with her boys, hiking in Red River Gorge, and spreading awareness of eosinophilic disorders.

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Titan Year 1

Tatum Throne

What would you do if they contacted you?

NASA scientist Cooper Hart is dying. He’s determined to spend his final days hoping to hear a signal from a far away world. When the encryption first comes in, he quickly discovers that this isn’t a prank. They want to meet.

Elian Moten has spent the last four years searching for a life form compatible to his. His world is dying from the lack of ability to reproduce. They need males to repopulate. After researching the planet within the Benidi Region, also known as Earth, he chooses Cooper Hart to bring back to the royal family. He isn’t prepared for the intense attraction he feels for Cooper or the overpowering urge to claim him.

After three months aboard the Titan, Cooper wakes up to discover he isn’t dead. He’s been given a second chance, but he’s not sure if he’s prepared to take it. When he looks at Elian, he only knows how to say yes.

Reader Advisory: Sci-Fi M/M Erotic Romance, containing consensual relationship between human and alien. Light BDSM, spanking.

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Titan Year 1

TATUM THRONE

LUMINOSITYPUBLISHING.COM

LUMINOSITY PUBLISHING LLP

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Titan Year 1

Copyright © Tatum Throne

ISBN: 978-1-910397-17-6

Cover Art by Poppy Designs

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Dedication

For the Throne boys.

Chapter One

NASA Field Office-Puerto Rico

Present Day

Holy shit.

Cooper Hart’s mouth dropped open, and he spilled the cooling coffee on the way to his mouth down his shirt and onto his pants. He set it aside before he dumped more on his laptop and absently swiped at the coffee on his clothing as his gaze went back to the screen. They were not alone. He always knew there was intelligent life out there in another galaxy, but he never thought he would live to see the day when they made first contact. Tears misted his eyes.

Would he live to see first contact? Nope.

He wasn’t going to live to see that day. Stage four cancer was stealing his life away. The tumor on his neck was painful as shit. His last round of chemo failed. They were talking about enrolling him in a research study back in the states. The MRI they did, just in case he decided to do the study, showed that the tumor hadn’t reached his brain or his testicles.

So, both heads were in good working order as far as he was concerned. He wasn’t about to hand himself over to play with unregulated medicine that might work and make his dick shrivel off. Fuck that.

He wasn’t going anywhere for the last few months of his life. There was no cure for stage four. It was treatable—but did he really want to spend the last few months of his life chasing every cancer cell in his body just to tack on a year, maybe two? Perhaps. Cooper worried his lip with his bottom teeth.

NASA scientist Cooper Hart who was born and raised in small town America, stared at the evidence coming through on his laptop. This was real. Sweat broke out on his forehead. They had contact—real, fucking, out of this world contact from an intelligent life form.

He stood up and sat back down, staring at the screen. His heart