14-year-old English cabin boy Nathan is shipwrecked off the coast of Aden in 1881 and makes his way to the city. His choices are to starve and be taken in the streets of the city and done to death as handsome European boys are roughly used in Aden or to at least use his body to make money for passage home. He consigns himself to a male brothel, hoping that Arab clients will not use him up before he can return home. It's an Englishman who uses him the most cruelly, though.
Annie wasn't naïve when she followed Tom to Serbia, but perhaps a little innocent. It was 1997, Communism had collapsed, and the Balkan Wars appeared over. It seemed the perfect time for a young couple to make their fortune, explore the world, and leave past disappointments behind. But Belgrade could be cruel to foreigners, and in the end, Annie's innocence would fall as its victim. Yet, she learned, the city had gifts had to offer too - gifts that could prove just as intense as its dangers...
A Tom Fisher Tales Story Tom Fisher is the gamekeeper's son, living on the estate of Sir Richard Astley, 'somewhere in England' in the 1920s. Richard is a selfish lover, as Tom observes when he fails to satisfy his paramour, Amy. She thinks virginal Tom might be able to assist in her moment of need.
Tony Nash while on a visit to an African state finds himself in the middle of a revolution. He rescues the princess from some drunken revolutionary soldiery with the result that he ends up being married with the help of the local witchdoctor to a number of attractive young ladies. Not only that but his sexual prowess has been enhanced, leading him into a number of situations before his naval carerer comes to an end.