Homo Sapiens experience a new mutation that includes a remnant of the Neanderthal. This new man can sense when a female is fertile, is highly intelligent and uses mind control.
Fourteen-year-old farmer's apprentice Derek and his master, Abel, dance around mutual want in eighteenth-century Saxony until, losing control, Abel follows Derek into a field and takes the boy's virginity. While walking to another field to think on his plight, Derek is set on by three men going to recruit as mercenary soldiers in the American Revolution, who debauch him and take him with them to be a soldiers' boy.
A young English gentleman takes his 14-year-old valet and bedmate to sea with him as personal cabin boy during the Seven Year's War between England and France. Their ship, the "Essex," sinks in the battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. The gentleman is lost and the boy takes shrapnel to the head, causing amnesia, but is saved and sent back for surgery and recuperation at Longford Castle. Here, various men discover the boy's talents in bed and use him as the boy slowly regains his memory.
This story is based on the TV series Outlander. It focuses on the episode where a young heroine is sold into slavery by an unscrupulous man. In the show, the girl is rescued by her family at the last moment. But what would have happened if she wasn't rescued .....