James III established a racehorse breeding operation in Kentucky. He did well before family problems. Then, he had issues with his son, James the Fourth, who wouldn’t follow in his footsteps. The Fourth had a son, James the Fifth, who made the Military his career. When the Fifth’s career ended, James the Third gifted me, the oldest known grandson, 80% of the horse farm to James the Fifth. The remaining 20% of the farm went to Molly, possibly a child of James the Fourth.
Alessandro, a small, beautiful-bodied, fourteen-year-old boy with a heavenly soprano singing voice, feels he lacks life and feeling in a Tuscan village from his widowed father, absent on weekends and drunk most of the time, and the strict, nonpersonal control by choir masters. His response on Saturdays is to seek the attention of men. From the village baker, to the region's aristocratic count, to a hunky young farmer, Alessandro manages to find the attention he thinks he needs.
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.
May, a war widow struggling to keep her Dorset smallholding alive after the brutal winter of 1946/47, is close to despair when two charming drifters arrive offering help in exchange for board and lodging. Their kindness, humour and dangerous influence draw her into acts she would once have thought unthinkable. By the time they vanish with the summer, they have left her carrying far more than memories. A reason to live.
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?
As with much of my work, this in praise of older women, not the busty hot blondes everywhere. A young man enjoys his elderly widowed Grandmother and then his Mother.
In this true story a mostly good man does a few horrible things; including infidelity, incest, and murder. Starts with Bruce deciding if he should join the Marines or Army near the start of World War 2. Names of the people involved have been changed for obvious legal and privacy reasons.
A 1956 royal visit to Kenya gives British colonists a chance to party in Nairobi and a 14-year-old colonist son a chance to get it on with an overseer, but it also gives Mau Mau rebels an opportunity to attack.