Yet
We Sleep, We Dream
by
JL Peridot
Genre:
Scifi Fantasy Romance, Shakespearean Retelling
Love triangles get bent out of shape when restless gods come out to play.
Relationships are complicated enough when only humans are involved — something the crew of the starship Athenia know plenty about. These children of a changing climate are no strangers to conflicts of the heart. And it seems there's a lot of conflict going on, even out in space.
When an alien dust finds its way on board, the veil between realms begins to fray. Old gods of a long dead planet resume their own romantic bickering while ancient magic wreaks havoc across the ship. Grudges resurface, friends turn to enemies, unrequited love turns to passion — or does it? It's kinda hard to tell with everyone at each other's throats.
Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show; but wonder on, till truth make all things plain. Yet We Sleep, We Dream is a romantic space-fantasy inspired by Shakespeare's endearing hot mess, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was." — Bottom, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Content guidance: This book contains strong language, drug use, on-page sexual encounters, references to bullying, references to harassment and infertility, depictions of perilous situations, depictions of marital disharmony, awkward social situations, and technical language.
Contains:
*Friends to lovers
*Second chances
*Aussies in space (casual swears)
*Sex, weed & waking dreams
*Hot robot love action
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When Titania is done with Olek, she pads across the grass, still naked and smiling while the human sleeps. Now that she’s been fucked the way she likes, Oberon suspects she’ll be more amenable to conversation.
“I see you’ve not thrown yourself out of the airlock yet.” She joins him beneath the giant fern. “This place has become tolerable to you then?”
“Not in the slightest.”
He greets her with a kiss, savouring the softness of her lips on his. Her tongue, wet and uniquely textured, finds him. Oberon supposes the feel of it on his skin—such strange skin—and by the smug hum in his wife’s throat, he can tell she suspects his curiosity. She pulls away with a sigh and nuzzles his bare shoulder.
“You seem to tolerate this body, at least,” she teases. “Why don’t I show you what it can do?”
He smirks. “Think you can teach an old dog new tricks?”
“Never. Not when our old tricks are yet so satisfying.”
She kisses him on the neck once, twice, then nips at the skin. The sudden shock is pain, electric, exquisite. He quickens, but his will bends to hers. When her fingers close around him, a weakness consumes him in the most divine of ways, a surrender that never lost its sweetness no matter what form he deigned to take.
Her kisses move down his body, tongue along the collarbone, lips across his chest. Her teeth find his nipple in a way that makes his torso twitch, but all she gives him is a laugh and a thumb tracing his most sensitive ridge.
At last, her mouth reaches him where he wants her most. Her warm breath teases his skin, strange skin, and she looks at him with a smile. Staring into her ice-blue eyes, he finds himself afraid that she’s only playing with him, that she’ll leave him wanting in this most enjoyable suffering. Oh, how he adores her unpredictability, her chaos, and the energy she stirs within him. It’s so becoming of a god-queen.
“That mortal would never resist you.” Oberon chuckles, savouring the anguish.
JL Peridot writes love letters to the future on devices form the past. She's a qualified computer scientist, former website maker, amateur horticulturist, and sometimes illustrator. But most of the time, she's an author of romantic science fiction. She lives with her partner and fur-family in Boorloo (Perth, Australia) on Whadjuk Noongar country.
Visit her website at jlperidot.com for the full catalogue of her work.
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The cover is gorgeous. This sounds like a good retelling.
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