Fourteen-year-old Patrick covets a racing bike he sees in the window of a bike shop. The bike shop owner covets fourteen-year-olds. The itches of both are scratched.
Big strapping black bull slave Big Sam had been brought to the Mississippi River Duval plantation to cover slave women and increase the size of the slave force. He'd done that, but he likes chasing down fourteen-year-old slave boys even better. He's seen with stable boy Joshua by the fourteen-year-old son of the plantation owner, John. John wants what Joshua is getting.
The man's world of the Jamaica sugar cane plantation of 1825. A plantation owner besot with a fourteen-year-old boy slave. His fourteen-year-old son guided by an indoctrinated sixteen-year-old. A homosexual sex cult of studly and randy slaves on the mountain and their full-moon initiation ritual. And the biggest black bull independent slave of them all in heat for deflowering fourteen-year-olds. How could that stew of elements play out?
The evening with Dan had been great, if it had to be her last memory of him, it would be a fine memory. Molly just didn't want a last memory of her volunteer-fire-fighter husband.