Lucy is growing up fast and she is not yet secure in her own identity. All she knows right now is that if she doesn't get Amanda her boss's attention and close personal contact, she would just absolutely die.
A month after Baron Wilhelm von Sternburg forcefully initiated fourteen-year-old American-English tender and ripe Gabriel Beaventon in a Tangiers beach resort cabana (see "Using Gabriel 1: The Baron"), the baron summons Gabriel and his mother to his Austrian Alps chalet for a ski week. He wants Gabriel to help him seal an arms deal depending on the intervention of an Italian bishop with a fetish for young boys. Gabriel complies. But of course the baron wants to do Gabriel again himself too
Despite being sexually active with Alice and Sara, Susan's real desire is to become a lover with her Grandmother Rose. It is her hope that she will be able to fulfill that desire during the Summer Break. Then her mother shows up...
Eleanor's loneliness is relieved by her fantasies. At first, she's unable to control them, but eventually one fantasy starts to become reality - or is she going mad? Crazy or not, happiness enters her life, though behind her she leaves confusion and a police search for a missing person.