Fritz, an American painter, banished to Vienna, Austria, by his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys, finds a fourteen-year-old angel in the Mozart Fountain.
Going on to twenty-five years of age, Max keeps his summer Ocean City beach lifeguard job because it gives him access to cute, impressionable, and seducible fourteen-year-old boys in skimpy Speedos.
Ahmed ibn Malik's Saracens are investing the Heights of Hattin in late twelfth-century Palestine. The Crusaders come out to parley, led by Guillaume de Chauvigny, bringing his three sons. Malik sees Chauvigny's 14-year-old reddish-blond and handsome son Andre and declares he must have him as a virgin. Turkish chieftain Yusuf bin Salah captures the boy and does everything he can to debauch him while leaving him technically a virgin for Ahmed's pleasure. Andre has his own secrets though.
Fourteen-year-old Italian Matteo finds himself orphaned in a remote Catholic medical and orphanage mission near mid-nineteenth-century Xi'an, China, and being used sexually by the Jesuit doctor in charge of the mission as well as the other priests. Having heard of the beautiful European boy, the Warlord in Xi'an arrives to sample his charms himself. He does so as a conqueror before learning just how charming the boy is.
Twenty-year-old art magazine writer Phillip is sent to the Philippines to write a feature on an artist who initiated him at fourteen and who had to leave the States because of his interest in teen boys. Phillip finds that interest hasn't lagged in the Philippines.
What would make a sophisticated, well-educated American man in his early thirties take a job running coffee and cinnamon plantations in rural East Timor for a Portuguese export house? It couldn't be because the age of consent for teenage boys there is fourteen, could it?
Jamie, a fourteen-year-old waif just floating around Pleasant Grove, Missouri, in 1915, doing odd jobs here and there and entrancing men who were subject to being entranced by handsome, charismatic, and perfectly formed fourteen-year-old boys, is on the cusp of deciding what he wants sexually. The priest and the hotel owner surely want him. But it's a smooth-talking salesman and the gypsies who take a march on the issue.
An Asheville college professor fights with his discovered fetish for fourteen-year-old boys and retreats to a mountain cabin to contemplate the issue. There are boys in the mountains too, though.
