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  <title><![CDATA[The Ultimatum]]></title>
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  <default_description>Dr. Alara Calladar needs a man........but she sure as krek doesn't want one. If Alara doesn't make love soon, her cells will fail to regenerate and she'll die. Unfortunately, her only option is an enemy--Rystani starpilot Xander, her abductor.... and a member of the race who has been battling hers since the beginning of time.Xander issues an ultimatum: He'll make love to Alara only if she will use her psi-talent of identifying DNA to help him find the cure for the deadly Terran virus spreading across the galaxy.Alara is trapped. She gives Xander what he wants--and gets when she needs. But Alara holds a pair of secrets: the more they make love, the more Alara's cells adapt to Xander's body, until the only person she can make love with is him--and the more time they spend together, the more Alara likes Xander. When it seems that all the forces in the universe have aligned against them, can Alara trust Xander with her life.... and her heart?</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">2</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Ultimatum</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Susan Kearney]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First, let me say that I don't have any huge objections with the actual writing of this book. The plot was fun, the characters were cute, and the sex was hot. However, I can't say I liked the book because I didn't like the theme.<br/><br/>In the book, Dr. Alara Calladar despises her female biology...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46763445">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like I've read this author before, but after looking at the descriptions of her other novels, I think I just thought about reading her and never actually picked one up.<br/><br/>I picked THE ULTIMATUM up because it was in the local (UK) library's very limited romance collection and because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62308111">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 18 16:56:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[While parts of this story over-exercised my eyebrow, there were also parts that worked.<br/><br/>If Alara doesn't make love regularly, her cells will fail to regenerate and she will die.  If she has sex regularly with the same man she becomes dependent on him to live.  She's researching a method o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74960312">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 13 19:10:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, she's just gotta have sex or she'll die. Because she's an alien. She's also a chemist and an antiques dealer.<br/>Oh and there's bondage in space, but that doesn't have much to do with her occupation.<br/>I promise there's a plot somewhere in there too.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've doggedly plowed my way through the first two books in this series, thinking to myself that Kearney was almost there in her efforts to write a sci-fi romance that did both world-building and romance-building not just in equal measure, but in ways where each actually informed the other.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55860726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the premise: no survival without sex.]]></body>
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