Three women and a man are castaways on a Pacific Island after their plane crashes. This is a redo of my work, Master's Island, which I posted 25 years ago. The younger girls are both 19 now, and I have changed the pirates to a no ethnic specific description. The story has also been expanded and rethought.
A story of the Clegg family's slave trading businesses
Before today's Freddie Clegg there were others. After the chaos of the German invasion of Paris in 1940, one man finds himself standing up against the Nazi threat. Oh, yes, and kidnapping women along the way. Freddie Clegg finds his skills in demand for the British war effort.
The staircase of a multistorey residential building becomes important for a young lad, who just starts to get interested in women. He focuses his attention on a woman who eventually catches him spying up her skirt. What follows proves to be the most important lesson of his life as she is willing to help him to improve his knowledge of the female anatomy - and desires.
When the Korean officer De-Yong is on the verge of dying in a duel against a samurai, a kumiho saves his life. She offers him a pact—one that can only be sealed through a union—and it heals his wounds. Too late, both of them realize the consequences of this bond, which also draws other powers onto the battlefield. In the process, the moral boundaries between humans and demons begin to blur.
In a rain-soaked neon city where flooded canals hide corporate secrets, a cynical salvage diver rescues an android scientist who claims her human consciousness was transferred to escape assassination. As they uncover proof of a vast program erasing awakened android minds, desire and doubt intertwine, forcing both to confront what makes consciousness real. Hunted by the corporation that created her, she must choose between survival and sacrifice.