Beyond All Stars — Melinda McKenzie

Ann Lafton was cool--a brilliant scientist, a daredevil pilot, and now a hand-picked astronaut. But working with Colonel Edward Saber, her mission commander, was sheer emotional chaos. Whenever he was near her, whenever he touched her, Ann's hard-won confidence failed. For Ed played the fire-and-ice game--cold to her during the day, sizzlingly passionate at night. Theirs was a stormy relationship that could easily jeopardize the NASA shuttle mission, but Ann could not let go of her dream that this tantalizingly sensuous lover would fly her to the stars....