Maybe that's a dangerous title to use for a blogpost! Many of my readers here are looking for clues about what books to download, and romance is a major heading for many of them.
The story I'm talking about is Music on the Galactic Voyager, a story about a space ark, containing a thousand human colonists, that set out in the 21st Century—just a few years before the present time!—and the problems they faced, and their experiences. Helen Nordstrom is among them, but in a hibernation state, but the leaders of the project resuscitate her, because they are convinced that she could help them with some serious social problems.
In the story, it was necessary to describe Helen's character from scratch, since this story doesn't follow along from any of the other Helen stories.
Helen is attracted to several women on the ship, and eventually settles down in a long-term relationship. But somehow, at least in my mind, her romances were not front and center. (In fact, there was an ongoing love affair between Helen and a little kid, entirely sexless, that is a lot more central to the story than Helen's romances.)
For reasons having to do with Helen's deteriorating health, she is put in hibernation once more, while they plan how to attack her medical issues. She is re-thawed 20 years later, by which time Helen's little students, including that little kid whom she loves so much, are mature adults.
In this story, too, Helen is a musician, and a music teacher. The reason she is initially 'awoken' is that the shipboard youth are bored, and getting involved with vandalism, and other destructive pastimes. But the musical references are not at all technical.
There's a sale on Smashwords, and you can get almost all my stories for free, for the month of July!
Kay
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