[close] Neal James is a navigator on a space station whose boyfriend, Dylan Teague, left him for a new mission. But when Dylan radios in a distant signal one night, Neal discovers that he hasn't managed put the relationship behind him. When he's one of the crew members sent to investigate the signal, he finds that his ex-lover feels the same way. Together they discover a lost colony where the threat of disease overshadows the love they have for each other and threatens to destroy the colonists only hope for survival. [close]