Book excerpt: Aster was an outsider in the rainbow-hued crystal city where Romulus lived. A formal joining was impossible, but the fever of mating drove him to tangle his hands in her silver-blonde hair, taste her melting lips, and teach her the exquisite pleasures of his exotic brand of sensuality. The bestselling author of Stardust Dreams has created a futuristic romance about love in another time, another place.