Male-perspective bisexual: A past brief three-way liaison in Kuala Lumpur with a business heiress and her husband-each separately and both together-has come back into a retired American's life to bite him in the ass, resurface a lingering feeling of guilt, and give him the comeuppance surprise of his life.
Jimmy Phillips has an adopted brother who thinks Jimmy might not like him too much but that isn't at all true. Jimmy seems cool to his brother because he wants him so badly he's afraid he'll lose control and make a move on his brother. Then one day Jimmy's feelings come out and he finds his brother wants him as much as he wants his brother. In bed together their sex is long, wild, and satisfying.
Male-perspective bisexual: Torn between his love for a woman lost and his need for her cruel, former husband, a young American can't keep away from the memory of the Tree of Idleness restaurant in both its Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot manifestations or from the guitar music that possessed him there, played by the man who he couldn't escape wanting.
Fourteen-year-old "wild boy" Charlie put the welfare of his dog, Ace, above all else. So, it was good that, when Ace was hit by a car, they were close to the house of a vet and his boyfriend who would take something other than cash to attend to Ace's wounds.
In July 1941, journalist (but really military intelligence agent) half English-half Burmese Gordon is dispatched to Burma to convince the artist who deflowered him at age fourteen and set him into having the fetish too to return to England to work on the war effort. The artist is in Burma because there are easy boys there and he tries to convince Gordon to stay. Gordon indulges in his old fetish and is also pursued by a Japanese sadist.
A holiday office party proves to be the beginning of a brand new life for Victor Mancini, an ambitious young editor whose women and boss all have designs on him.
In 1956 Germany, American colonel, Armstrong, takes his wife, Betsy, and fourteen-year-old son, David, on a vacation to see Mad King Ludwig’s Bavarian castles. They engage a down-on-his-luck count to be their guide. David and the count become very good friends.