In 1931, as the Great Slump threatens their elegant Swanage guesthouse, Lakmé Crawford hatches a scandalous plan: offer private “educational holidays” to bashful young gentlemen of means. With her husband’s reluctant blessing, the confident 51-year-old becomes tutor in the arts of pleasure. Business flourishes — until a powerful client arrives with demands of his own. Witty, steamy, and deliciously improper.
In a world where magic and industry collide, a reborn man finds a mysterious Black Stone glowing with forbidden golden light. Armed with modern knowledge, he turns coins into weapons, laundromats into empires, and federal agents into pawns. He doesn’t want to rule the world. He wants the world to need him. The only sin is playing small.
Ahmed ibn Malik's Saracens are investing the Heights of Hattin in late twelfth-century Palestine. The Crusaders come out to parley, led by Guillaume de Chauvigny, bringing his three sons. Malik sees Chauvigny's 14-year-old reddish-blond and handsome son Andre and declares he must have him as a virgin. Turkish chieftain Yusuf bin Salah captures the boy and does everything he can to debauch him while leaving him technically a virgin for Ahmed's pleasure. Andre has his own secrets though.
A young boy is caught by his father licking his younger sister and is immediately sent away to live with his father's friend. The friend's wife reads the note carried by the boy and saves the boy for her own desires. Thus begins his real sexual education.
A New Career Story This time John Wilson fights Bushwhackers in Missouri before he fights Indians farther south in Texas. He has two wives, but not at the same time. He even picks up a sidekick and some war dogs. Yes, this is an exciting life for John. He also gets a visit from his benefactors. Find out some of the why for John's multiple lives.