A young man is bought by the matriarch of the Martin Clan after the death of her partner. His journey through life is a mixture of pleasure and pain as he fights for his honour, his mistress and his new people. The story is historical but set in an unspecified time and location a century or so ago.
An Archangel, after millennia of fighting against Chaos, is ejected from The Celestial Choir and called before God to be restored. Except this God isn't the All-Father. More the All-Mother and She was just what the Archangel Tamiel needed to vent centuries of rage on.
This particularly dark tale chronicles the outlandish sexcapades of Bernard Halek, a French professor-turn-sexual deviant who decides one day to cross the line of what's appropriate teacher behaviour towards a student. Forced on the run by various vengeful forces hunting him, including a beautiful INTERPOL agent who makes finding him her pet project, Halek travels across the continental US and slowly get's caught up in a spiralling descent of sex, violence and bittersweet heartache.
Patrick's wife brings home an antique lamp that turns out to have a genie in it. The genie looks suspiciously like a leprechaun, though, and he wants to make a deal.