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.
Two girls want to learn how to act on stage. They pay a price for their curiosity. Family secrets are exposed. The two friends grow up quickly and find out about boy friends, the mystery of a mother's disappearance, and what lust is.
Howard, Lord Hardwick, escapes the nuisance of the 1931 recession-driving collapse of the British Labour government by taking an extra constitutional retreat to his seaside villa on the coast north of Brindisi, Italy, to indulge in his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys.
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.
A knight astride a horse with a grudge. Whatever you do, do not give him his head! What Free Rein really means. See Sister story Free Reign for the alternative.