A redheaded girl of sixteen becomes a mail order bride. She is met at the train in Nebraska by her fiancé and they quickly marry. She becomes frustrated when she learns that she is unable to bare children.
Fourteen-year-old, androgynously beautiful Damian Stanton is pulled from his boys’ school in England in 1914 for fear that the older boys at school will do him as both they and his tutor have already done him. He is taken to the family’s rubber plantation in Malay, where all the men also want to do him. While the plantation men jockey for Damian, they do each other.
Sometimes you believe and sometimes you don't. I have a friend, Nathaniel, who has changed my mind about many things. Hospital Island taught him a very serious fact. Don't trust a Red Coat! It's nice to have a friend help with writing stories too and he helps me in more ways than you can imagine.
Enoch is proud of his service in the War of Independence, in which he helped to make America a land of Freedom, Opportunity and Democracy. But there are limits to the new Liberty. The rights enshrined in the new constitution do not extend to all. Least of all to the slaves on Enoch's farm who have yet to taste any of this bravely won Freedom in the New World, but so badly want a share of it.
Two English sisters are captured by Chinese pirates while on board a ship taking them home to England. They are transported in chains to the Lotus Garden where they are trained to be concubines. The owner of the Lotus Garden takes pleasure in testing the sexual skills of the Lotus Garden slaves, awarding a personal seal of approval in the form of a small tattoo. The story is set in 16th century China.