In an alternate history of Britain, the son of Princess Charlotte of Wales becomes King upon the death of George IV in 1830. Partially orphaned by the death of his mother and intentionally separated from his foreign father, King Frederick I is primarily influenced by the unconventional ideas of his nurse. Unlike the conservative backlash experienced in our timeline, Britain is about to enter a new age of sexual liberation.
Eve is still a White Witch and she wants desperately to graduate into the coven of the Black Witches. The new warlock comes into the village to do the honors.
Randel is a 21-year-old man who has a grudge against all women. He’s a particularly nasty individual for a hero, which, of course, a hero he isn’t. However, in his mind, he is justified in his dreadful crimes. And, of course, as we all are, Randel is the hero of his own stories. In this outing, he seeks revenge on Alice for a perceived slight. A girl doesn't flirt with him, so he must rape her.
When fourteen-year-old American Brian visits his parents on U.S. diplomatic assignment to Bonn, Germany, over the summer school holidays not long after the end of World War Two, Brian is taken with--and taken and initiated and trained by--the mysterious, bitter ex-German soldier, Gerhard, who has become the family's handyman and gardener and who lives up a spiral staircase from the family's apartment.