"And All The Stars Burned Bright" (Barbara Havers/Tommy Lynley, M)
Title: And All The Stars Burned Bright
Author: mintcloud / roseandheather
Fandom: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries/Star Trek
Genres: Romance/Sci-Fi
Word Count: ~49K
Rating: M
Pairings: Barbara Havers/Tommy Lynley, Shannon Reed/Carly Doherty, others
Content Advisory: Character death, f/f romance, het sex, het romance, nasty space battles, romance novel prose, plot
Summary: In 2371, Commander Barbara Havers is assigned as First Officer to the USS Providence under the command of Captain Thomas Lynley. She is from London's still-poor East End, with a chip on her shoulder, a hair-trigger temper and a sarcastic streak to match. He was schooled at Eton and Oxford and born to one of Starfleet's most legendary families, and his sense of well-meaning superiority is long-standing and unshakable. The assignment should have been a disaster.
But against the backdrop of the rising Dominion threat, the disappearance of one of Starfleet's own, and the bloodiest war the Federation had ever faced, the Captain and the Commander will discover a bond more powerful than they had ever expected - a bond that blossoms into the love of a lifetime. As they fight for the very survival of the Alpha Quadrant, that bond will be tested to its limit. In the heat of battle, at the edge of survival, they will forge a romance that crosses all boundaries of class, family background, and first impressions - and learn that, while some partnerships are written in the stars, in the end, the only force more powerful than destiny is love.
Author: mintcloud / roseandheather
Fandom: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries/Star Trek
Genres: Romance/Sci-Fi
Word Count: ~49K
Rating: M
Pairings: Barbara Havers/Tommy Lynley, Shannon Reed/Carly Doherty, others
Content Advisory: Character death, f/f romance, het sex, het romance, nasty space battles, romance novel prose, plot
Summary: In 2371, Commander Barbara Havers is assigned as First Officer to the USS Providence under the command of Captain Thomas Lynley. She is from London's still-poor East End, with a chip on her shoulder, a hair-trigger temper and a sarcastic streak to match. He was schooled at Eton and Oxford and born to one of Starfleet's most legendary families, and his sense of well-meaning superiority is long-standing and unshakable. The assignment should have been a disaster.
But against the backdrop of the rising Dominion threat, the disappearance of one of Starfleet's own, and the bloodiest war the Federation had ever faced, the Captain and the Commander will discover a bond more powerful than they had ever expected - a bond that blossoms into the love of a lifetime. As they fight for the very survival of the Alpha Quadrant, that bond will be tested to its limit. In the heat of battle, at the edge of survival, they will forge a romance that crosses all boundaries of class, family background, and first impressions - and learn that, while some partnerships are written in the stars, in the end, the only force more powerful than destiny is love.