Raised as a girl in the New South, Dani is a freeborn black living the Confederate Dream, but when her father's white boss takes the lovely transsexual as his own, she quickly discovers the pleasure and cruelty of being a 21st century slave.
Ilsa and Melanie are two young, beautiful girls from wealthy families, who have become roommates at their girls' boarding school. They fall deeply in love, and have a hard time concealing it. They have to hide and sneak away to have their steamy, passionate trysts. Melanie's mother is a perceptive woman--how much does she know, or suspect? The secrets become harder and harder to keep, and things get very interesting-even dangerous--for both girls.
When Lisa goes away to attend private school, her father, Steve, and fifteen year old boyfriend, Ryan, find a way to help each other keep from missing her too much.