The life of a member of an elite kill squad called the wraiths. What does a retired soldier with no sense of right or wrong do after he has left the military. Well of course he goes into the slave trade
A rather plain looking young woman gets the interest of an older man who cooperates to see what she is up to. It's what he gets "up to" that really gets interesting.
For Halloween: Twice yearly in the late 18th century, the choir master of Munich Cathedral, in Bavaria, Otto Strickler, takes a coach up to Castle Ringang in the perpetual shadow of the Alps to collect a large donation from the patron, the forever forty-year-old Baron Derick von Obertstdorf. Each time the baron requires Strickler to bring an unsullied fourteen-year-old boy angel with him for the night. It's handsome, blond, boy treble soloist, and orphan Jan Becker's turn.