A young English gentleman takes his 14-year-old valet and bedmate to sea with him as personal cabin boy during the Seven Year's War between England and France. Their ship, the "Essex," sinks in the battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. The gentleman is lost and the boy takes shrapnel to the head, causing amnesia, but is saved and sent back for surgery and recuperation at Longford Castle. Here, various men discover the boy's talents in bed and use him as the boy slowly regains his memory.
Brad is a respectable forty-year-old banker in the circus wintering town of Peru, Indiana, but he has a hankering for young men. He's working, in postwar 1949, on a scheme to "adopt," with fake papers, one of three boys he covers from a German male brothel, when, in Peru, he happens to come onto a knife-thrower's assistant, Alfonso, who has tried to drown himself in the Wabash River.
Male perspective bisexual: When you are a man/woman U.S. spy team in Southeast East and told to give a Laos-China-Myanmar border drug warlord whatever he wants to recruit him to support the national interest of the United States, you give him whatever he wants, even when he wants it from both of you.
Spreading the word of God in the more rural parts of the Empire is a tedious and thankless task. The Rector has found a way to have a happy ending in his labors in the field and has cast his seed in all directions like it is described in the books of the old testament.
After a surprise encounter at work, a wife is invited to spend a naked weekend at the new friend's home. She doesn't explain anything to her husband, and they are both surprised in the liberal, free spirited home.
In the mystical warring Greek city states era in the prerecorded mists of time, princes schemed for kingdoms and kings schemed for consolidation of kingdoms in a convoluted maze in maze activity of epic proportions. Fourteen-year-old Nikon is a minor prince faced with scheming to stay alive no less than in becoming king. In epic style this is his story of journeying through this labyrinth.
My wife told me she took on another night school course, but I discovered we weren't being charged for it. I found out that was because she wasn't attending. Her parents were even more upset with her behavior than I was. They took her cheating ass in hand. Did they ever. They taught me a thing or two about marriage as well. A tale of straying, learning and redemption.