Argos Flavius, master painter of panels in sexual pleasure chambers for elite ancient Greek men enjoying boys, is living temporarily in Rhodes to paint panels for the Baths of Dionysus, where he sees and is drawn to a fourteen-year-old blond Greek boy slave. He loses the connection but later sees the boy on a balcony of what must be a male brothel across the skyline of Rhodes from Argos's own balcony. Argos goes in pursuit of the boy, both to paint and to possess him.
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...
Times are a changing. With the recent 1978 Equal Opportunities Act in Victoria, there are now even more policewomen attached to Senior Sergeant 'Wild Bill' O'Donoghue's 'Uniform Branch' - Sergeant Tess Gallagher and 'Trainee' Constable Susie Raynor now joining the select cadre of local policewomen. And then, there's 'Charlotte the Harlot' and the girls at the Sunbury 'Halfway House' to deal with too! A follow on from Kelly Maree O'Rourke and Joanna Louise Parrish...
A Rachael of Emarukistan Story Rachael's slave training business is doing well. She agrees to train a young female slave on behalf of the Grey Monks, a quasi-religious order with an unsavoury reputation. When Rachael gets to know her trainee's background she is unwillingly drawn into the murky politics of the Grey Monks. A betrayal puts Rachael's own freedom from slavery at risk.
"History is more or less bunk." Henry Ford
"Well this history isn't." Holly Rennick
"Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
"But could we give this one another run-through?" Cindi Barton
The sexuality of a fourteen-year-old golden-haired squire with a gift for pleasing men is used in a ruse by a Crusader warrior chief in a fortress besieged by Saracens in the twelfth-century Levant to scheme his men's way through the Saracen lines and escape to the Mediterranean Sea.
Some memories, experiences, attitudes, and fantasies from my early teens, with some present day wishful thinking and regrets about those years, tagged on.. You figure out what's what. LOL.
Set in 1926 Los Angeles, this is yet another of my peeks into sex in the days gone by. After a night at the movies, Ginny and Trudy get taken for a ride that neither of them expected.