A The Chosen Ones Story (5) Megan Richards and Brad Seldon are broken hearted in 1975 when they learn a terrible truth their parents had kept secret all their lives. Their best friends help them to recover and they discover that their lives were not destoyed by that dark truth... despite the fact that the dark forces of the universe have been conspiring to do just that all their lives... destroy them. And they were not about to give up yet...
The 4th son of Albert, the Duke of Jugenheit, 14-year-old Ladislaus, becomes a surety hostage in the Duchy of Hohenwald pending complete ransom payment when Albert is captured in a border skirmish. Once freed, Albert refuses to pay, making the hostages’ lives forfeit. Simon, the Duke of Hohenwald, having a fetish for deflowering 14-year-old boys, finds a use for Ladislaus before he begins to off the hostages. The castle priest, Istvan, smitten with Ladislaus, has other plans, though.
You don’t know how this book came into your possession. One day, it just appeared with its red leather cover and no title. As you open it, the pages spring to life, moving on their own with incredible speed until they finally settle on one chapter. The book may speak of many worlds and many ages both past and future, but for now, this is the story the Red Book offered you. On a cold, spring night a carriage makes its way hastily down the old dirt road. In it, a young noble lady.
This story is designed to highlight the extreme conditions of physical, emotional and sexual abuse to which all Roman slaves were liable to be exposed, through the experiences of three boy gladiators. It was inspired largely by the TV series 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand' (and features a cameo from one of the characters) and the book 'Time Hunters: Gladiator Clash' by Adam Blade. Credit goes to ChatGPT for talking through my ideas with me and coming up with interesting settings for some scenes.
A Jacqueline de Belleville Story (6) 1817. Jacqueline and the other 31 young women captives held at Wadi Halaf settle into the demands of harem life while negotiations are held for payment of their ransoms. But both sides of the negotiations are suspicious of the other, and the intermediaries are no more trustworthy. It's a recipe for trouble which could see the young women spend the rest of their lives as harem slaves entertaining their lusty overlords.
Jamie, a fourteen-year-old waif just floating around Pleasant Grove, Missouri, in 1915, doing odd jobs here and there and entrancing men who were subject to being entranced by handsome, charismatic, and perfectly formed fourteen-year-old boys, is on the cusp of deciding what he wants sexually. The priest and the hotel owner surely want him. But it's a smooth-talking salesman and the gypsies who take a march on the issue.