Argos Flavius, master painter of panels in sexual pleasure chambers for elite ancient Greek men enjoying boys, is living temporarily in Rhodes to paint panels for the Baths of Dionysus, where he sees and is drawn to a fourteen-year-old blond Greek boy slave. He loses the connection but later sees the boy on a balcony of what must be a male brothel across the skyline of Rhodes from Argos's own balcony. Argos goes in pursuit of the boy, both to paint and to possess him.
Fritz, an American painter, banished to Vienna, Austria, by his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys, finds a fourteen-year-old angel in the Mozart Fountain.
The continuing cycle of fourteen-year-old boys and men in the business of photographing nude and sex scenes for various levels of publishing and special subscription audiences plays out in Europe in the first twenty years of the century.
Fourteen-year-old son of a movie star, Trent, has a thing about being submissive to dominant teachers and is caught at it at his boarding school. His step-father takes him to an exclusive male-only Colorado ski resort with an unusual idea of how Trent should face the consequences of his submissiveness.
The sexuality of a fourteen-year-old golden-haired squire with a gift for pleasing men is used in a ruse by a Crusader warrior chief in a fortress besieged by Saracens in the twelfth-century Levant to scheme his men's way through the Saracen lines and escape to the Mediterranean Sea.